Mischnah. Oder der Text des Talmuds.

(MISHNAH).

Onolzbach (i.e. Ansbach)

1760-63

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Translated by Johann Jacob Rabe. Six parts in three volumes.

Freimann 127; Fuerst III, 127.

This feat of scholarship was much admired by Moses Mendelssohn, who, upon publication of the first volume, did not hesitate to write a review praising Rabe’s accomplishments. Rabe included the entire review, complete with Mendelssohn’s notes, in the foreword to Part II. IN turn Rabe felt moved to bestow upon Mendelssohn the celebrated compliment previously reserved for Moses Maimonides: “From Moses to Moses there was none like Moses” (“Von Mose bis auf Mose sene nicht gewesen wie dieser Mose”) (foreword, p. 2). See A. Altmann, Moses Mendelssohn (1973) pp.196-97, 21.