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Hoffmann, David : MEKHILTA DE-RABI SHIM? ON BEN YOHAI ? AL SEFER SHEMOT: MELUKETET MI-TOKH MIDRASH HA-GADOL = MECHILTA DE-RABBI SIMON B. JOCHAI [BOUND WITH] ZUR EINLEITUNG IN DIE MECHILTA DE-RABBI SIMON BEN JOCHAI

Frankfurt A. M. ; Y. Koyffmann, 1905, 1906

Period Cloth. 4to. XVI, 180; 15 pages. 26 cm. First edition. In Hebrew and German. Mekhilta of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai; 180 pages, in Hebrew. A reconstructed collection of biblical interpretations ascribed to Simeon ben Yohay. Bound with: Hoffman, “Zur Einleitung in die Mechilta de-Rabbi Simon ben Jochai” (15 pages, 1906, in German) , "Sonderabdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Ju¨disch-literarischen Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. M. , 1906." David Zevi Hoffmann (1843–1921) , rabbi and biblical and talmudic scholar; Rector of the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin. The Mekhilta of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai is “a halakhic Midrash on Exodus from the school of R. Akiva , which is attributed to R. Simeon b. Yohai because of his exposition at the beginning of the book. … This Midrash was subsequently lost, and only portions were found by modern scholars. Meir Freidmann (Ish Shalom) was the first to collect the quotations from MS that were known in his time, and his list was augmented by a number of items by Hoffmann in his pioneering study of the tannaitic Midrashim. Israel Lewy then discovered that large portions of the Midrash had been cited by R. David ha-Adani in Midrashha-Gadol on Exodus, and Schechter published a few fragments from MS itself that he uncovered in the Cairo Genizah. The first edition of MS was published by Hoffmann (Frankfurt, 1905) , based on Midrash ha-Gadol and a small number of Genizah fragments identified by Schechter. ” - 2008 EJ. Attractively bound in period marbled boards and cloth. Subjects: Commentaries. Bible. Exodus - Commentaries. Bible. Exodus. Mekhilta of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai – Commentaries. Midrash. Haggada. OCLC lists 23 copies of the Zur Einleitung and 29 copies of the Mekhilta; not commonly bound together, according to oclc listings. Light wear to edges of binding, otherwise clean and fresh. Very good condition. (GER-44-60)

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