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Lot #    16237
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 2:06:35 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ikkarim
Title (Hebrew)    ספר העקרים
Author    [First Ed.] R. Joseph Albo; Isaac Husik, trans
City    Philadelphia
Publisher    Jewish Publiciation Society
Publication Date    1929
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition of translation. Five volumes, 165:104 mm, nice margins, usual light age staining. A very good set bound in the original cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Sefer ha-Ikkarim reflects Albio's troubled reaction to the wavering of faith among his fellow Jews which stemmed from the discussions of religious dogma. He keenly felt the need to restore the morale of his people by offering them a reasoned presentation of Judaism and by showing that the basic teachings of the Jewish religion bore the essential character of a "divine law." He brought to his task a wide knowledge of both rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy. He was also at home in Islamic philosophy (probably through Hebrew versions) and in Latin Christian scholasticism, notably Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. In addition, he was versed in mathematics and medicine. It has been suggested that Albo took his main ideas from his teacher, R. Hasdai Crescas and from R. Simeon b. Zemah Duran. R. Crescas' Or Adonai, which was completed in 1410, was known to Albo when he wrote the first part of his work which contains his fundamental outline of Jewish dogmatics; and it is probable that he knew R. Simeon b. Zemah Duran's formulation of the principles of the Jewish faith in the latter's commentary on Job (Ohev Mishpat printed in the rabbinic Bible edition Kehillat Moshe, 4 (Amsterdam, 1727)) written in 1405.

The Sefer ha-Ikkarim is divided into four parts or ma'amarim ("treatises"), the first of which was originally projected as an independent work. The other three parts were added later at the request of friends, and they elaborate upon the three fundamental principles laid down in the first.

          
Paragraph 2    לרבי יוסף אלבו. הוגה על פי כתבי יד שונים והוצאות עתיקות ונעתק לשפת אנגלית, מאת יצחק הוזיק ... מאמר א-ד. דפוס החברה היהודית להוצאת ספרים אשר באמיריקא,

עברית ואנגלית, עמוד מול עמוד, עם שערים נוספים: מאמר א: פאכסימיל, 203 ,203 ,XXVIII, [1] עמ'. מאמר ב: פאכסימיל, [5], 219,219 עמ'. מאמר ג: פאכסימיל, [5], 351, 351 עמ'. מאמר ד, חלק א: פאכסימיל, [5], 272, 272 עמ'. מאמר ד, חלק ב: פאכסימיל, [5], 273-597 ,273-597 עמ'.

          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
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Language:    English, Hebrew
  
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