Judaica from Focloir

France gplr Gerschel, Paul and Louis Roges. L'Affaire Dreyfus: cinq semaines a Rennes. Deux Cents Photographies deGerschel. Texte de Louis Roges. Paris: F. Juven, Editeur, [1899], xxiv pages, 197 pages of plates: illustrations, portraits. It appears that it was originally published in paperback – front page of the front paper wrapper, with illustration, is laid in. The back cover of… Read more about this item

Ancient world bleo Boadt, Lawrence. Ezekiel's oracles against Egypt : a literary and philological study of Ezekiel 29-32. (Series:Biblica et orientalia ; 37). Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1980, viii 219p. bib, index. Revision of thesis (doctoral--Pontifical Biblical Institute). Paperbound. Very good,clean tight copy. $15.00 Box 2029

Germany lmja Lamberti, Marjorie. Jewish activism in Imperial Germany: the struggle for civil equality. (Yale historical publications: Miscellany; 119). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978, xii, 235p, notes, bib, index. Review slip laid in. Very good to very good, clean tight copy. $9.50 Box A 123

Philosophy hase Hart, Alan. Spinoza's Ethics, Part I and II: a Platonic Commentary. Leiden: E. J. Brill,1983, x, 158 pages, bib, index. Very attractive deep blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. Very good to fine. Has a very friendly inscription by Hart to a friend and colleague on the front free endpaper. $50.00 Box… Read more about this item

Ancient world dvai de Vaux, Roland Guérin, O. P., 1903-1971. Ancient Israel: its life and institutions. Translated by John McHugh. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1962, xxiii, 592p, bib, index. Good plus condition in dust jacket. The dust jacket has some chipping. Père de Vaux has signed his name on the front free endpaper: "R. de Vaux,… Read more about this item

Reference rasw Rosenbach, A. S. W. An American Jewish bibliography: Being a list of books and pamphlets by Jews, or relating to them, printed in the United States from the establishment of the press in the colonies until 1850. (Philadelphia):American Jewish Historical Society, 1926, xi, 486 pages, bib, illus, index. First Edition. This is a "special… Read more about this item

Russia ccgl Chadwick,H. Munro and Nora K. Chadwick. The Growth of Literature, Volume II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968, (1936), xvii, 783 pages, index. Good to very good condition in like dust jacket. Originally published in 1936. A very impressive piece of scholarship by two distinguished historians. Heavy volume. $42.50 Box 3 Summary: First published between… Read more about this item

Ancient world vgai de Vaux, Roland Guérin, O. P., 1903-1971. Ancient Israel: its life and institutions. Translated by John McHugh. New York: McGraw Hill, 1962, xxiii, 592p, bib, index. Good tight copy. I would often see Pere de Vaux walking around Jerusalem in the mid-sixties. A great scholar. $18.50 Box 4

Philosophy 004 Friedmann, Georges. Leibniz et Spinoza. Nouvelle edition revue et augmentee.(Series:Bibliothèque des Idées). Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1962, 350 pages, index. Paperbound, good condition, paper little toned, as is often the case with French books. This is a revised edition of the original 1946 work, which came out in 320 pages. (A touching and appropriate dedication to Marc… Read more about this item

China 1002 Leslie, Donald Daniel. The Survival of the Chinese Jews. The Jewish Community of Kaifeng. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972, xiv, 270 pages, appendices, bib, indices. Calls for 37 plates and 2 folding maps. It appears that Plates XXI and XXII are not present. Paperback volume with name of owner (from Duke University) on front lining paper. … Read more about this item

Religion 975 Patschovsky, Alexander. Der Passauer Anonymus: ein sammelwerk uber ketzer Juden Antichrist aus der mitte des XIII. Jahrhunderts. (Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Band 22). Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1968, xi, 208 pages, very good in dust jacket name on lining paper crossed out. Very uncommon. $50.00

Ancient world 2433 Niditch, Susan. The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian periods. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015, 190 pages, notes, bib, index. Fine in dust jacket. $10.00

RL 1705 Wagenaar Jan A. Judgement and Salvation: the Composition and Redaction of Micah 2-5. (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, Volume 85). Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001, vii, 361 pages, bib, index. Fine copy in good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some roughness where a bookseller's sticker once was. … Read more about this item

Ancient world 1416Yadin, Yigael, 1917-1984. Masada: Herod's fortress and the Zealots' last stand. (Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Pearlman). New York: Random House, 1989, 272p, index, illus. (part col.) map, plans (part col.) Originally published in 1966, very nicely illustrated, fine copy in dust jacket. Illustrated on-site account of the author's archaeological expedition to excavate the Jewish stronghold… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1379Wevers, John William. Essays on the ancient Semitic world. Edited by J. W. Wevers and D.B.Redford. [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, 1970, vii, 112 p. illus. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50

RL 1701 Räisänen, Heikki. Paul and the Law. Second edition, revised and enlarged. (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 29). Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1987, xxxi, 320p, bib, index. Acceptable copy only because of the very heavy inking, in red and blue, in a good portion of the book. Other than the heavy marking, the book is in good,… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1264 (Syriac). Hassan bar Bahlul, active 10th century. Lexicon syriacum auctore Hassano bar Bahlule voces syriacas græcasque cum glossis syriacis et arabicis complectens; e pluribus codicibus edidit et notulis instruxit Rubens Duval. Three volumes in two. Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1970, this is the second volume only!!!!. This volume has paragraphs 1 to 1396. (Volume… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1204St. Aquilino, Alexio. Opusculum grammaticae Hebraeae et Chaldaeae…. Heidelberg: Joannis Baptistae Wiesen, 1776, 223p. Rebound in solid tight buckram binding, some minor waterstaining. Technical apparatus is in Latin. Old Hebrew grammar. $35.00

Ancient world 1133 Rosenthal, Franz (editor). An Aramaic handbook; with contributions by Zeev Ben-Hayyim [and others]. Two volumes in four. (Series: Porta linguarum orientalium. Neue ser.;10). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1967, Part I, 1: xii, 70p plus foldout of table of scripts; Part I, 2: 76p; Part II, 1: 81p plus foldout of table of scripts; Part II, 2: 120p, glossary. Paperbacks.… Read more about this item

Ancient world 1132Rosenthal, Franz. A grammar of Biblical Aramaic. Fifth printing. (Series: Porta linguarum orientalium; neue Serie, 5). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1983 (1961), x, 100p. Paperback. There is intermittent yellow highlighting up to page 59. It's neatly done and not as offensive as those who highlight everything in the first chapter and then run out of steam. Otherwise, the book… Read more about this item