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Lot #    15694
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 12:47:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Untersuchungen ueber die Redaktion der Mischna
Author    [Only Ed.] Chanoch Albeck
City    Berlin - (Melle)
Publisher    C. A. Schwetschke & Sohn - (Haag)
Publication Date    1923
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    Only edition. ix, 165, [1] pp., 228:154 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A good copy not bound.
          
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Description		    Hanokh Albeck (Chanokh; 1890–1972), talmudic scholar, studied at the Theological Seminary and the University of Vienna, became research scholar at the Akademie fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin (1920) and lecturer in Talmud at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums (1926). In 1936 he emigrated to Erez Israel and was professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University, until 1956. Albeck's work covers almost all areas of talmudic research. In his studies on tannaitic literature, he came to the conclusion that the editors (not only of tannaitic literature, but also of the Talmud) compiled their materials without adapting, abridging, or reworking them, as their only objective was to collect scattered materials. This first attempt to offer a comprehensive solution to the various problems arising out of the study of talmudic literature, provoked a keen controversy, not yet settled. In Albeck's opinion, as opposed to that of David Hoffmann, the principal differences between the two types of halakhic Midrashim stem from divergent redactions. Albeck even set out to prove that both the Tosefta and the halakhic Midrashim, as they are known, were unknown to the two Talmuds. In his work on the halakhah in the Book of Jubilees Albeck argued that it does not stem from any of the three known sects (Pharisees, Sadducees, or Essenes), but that it originated in the circles of another sect, the "Circle of Enoch", and shows affinity to the halakhah of the Damascus Covenant. These conclusions have assumed special importance since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. After the death of J. Theodor, Albeck completed the publication of the latter's monumental critical edition of Genesis Rabbah and he wrote the comprehensive introduction as well. This work is a striking example of an extremely accurate critical edition. Albeck also edited the Hebrew translation of Zunz's Gottesdienstliche Vortraege, adding a great amount of new material. His major works are: an edition of Meiri's Beit ha-Behirah on Yevamot (1922); Untersuchungen ueber die Redaktion der Mischna (1923); Genesis Rabbah (1926–36); Untersuchungen ueber die halakischen Midrashim (1927); Das Buch der Jubilaeen und die Halacha (1930); Ha-Eshkol by Abraham b. Isaac, I–II (1935–38); Bereshit Rabbati (1940); Mehkarim bi-Veraita ve-Tosefta (1944); Ha-Derashot be-Yisrael, Zunz's work (1947); The Mishnah (with introductions, commentary, and notes; 1952–59); Mavo la-Mishnah (1959); Mavo la-Talmudim, I (1969). Beside his major works, he also wrote many scholarly essays in Hebrew and German.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Mishnah
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica