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Lot #
19043
Auction End Date
10/9/2007 11:33:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Mykur Hayem, Mistranslations
Title (Hebrew)
מקור חיים
Author
[Only Ed.] Benjamin Marcus
City
Dublin
Publisher
M. H. Gill
Publication Date
1845
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 503 pp., 189:109 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
Detailed
Description
It was not before the forties of the nineteenth century that the desire made itself really felt among the English Jews for a Bible translation of their own in the vernacular, though David Levi had in 1787 (London) produced an English version of the Pentateuch (Steinschneider, "Cat. Bodl." No. 926). Wherever an English Bible was needed by them, they had freely used the King James Version; as is seen in the Pentateuch (including Haftorot and Scrolls) which was published in London, 1824, under the title. But the impropriety of the use of this version, with its Christian headings and its Messianic interpretations, was the reason for this work as described on the title page: Mistranslations and difficult passages of the Old Testament calculated both to destroy the original true meaning, and to strenghten and confirm the infidel in his unbelief. Corrected and explained, in a easy and familiar manner...
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
England:
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Other:
Ireland
Subject
Bible:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
English, Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
