Della Lingua Propria di Cristo a degli Ebrei Nazionali della Palestina.

Estimate: $200–$300
Hammer price: $175

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author

ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO DE.

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Stamperia Reale

Place

Parma

Publication

1772

Description

FIRST EDITION

summary

The well-known Hebrew scholar De Rossi examines the question of the language spoken in the Holy Land in the time of Jesus and argues against the hypothesis developed by a “recente scrittore italiano” (i.e. D. Diodati) that Jesus’s language was Greek.

pp. (8), xvi, 244, Lightly dampstained. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, scuffed, corners bumped, backstrip worn, Sm. 4to.

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