She’iltoth [Halachah as derived from the Pentateuch]

ACHAI GAON

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. First words of five divisions of Pentateuch richly historiated

Vinograd, Venice 294; Habermann, Bomberg 181; Adams A-104

The first work attributed to an author after the close of the Talmudic era. In the nineteenth century, R. Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin (“NeZIV”), famed dean of the Volozhin Yeshivah, published a commentary to the work, “Ha'amek She'elah.” In the twentieth century, Prof. Samuel Kalman Mirsky of Yeshiva University published a critical edition of the She'iltoth