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Bidding Information
Lot #    23953
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:38:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Book of Psalms
Title (Hebrew)    תהלים
Author    [Unrecorded]
City    New York
Publisher    Hebrew Publishing Co.
Publication Date    1924
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [3], 992-1085:992-1085, [1] pp., 205:131 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed. Unrecorded in the bibliography.
          
Detailed
Description
   Title: The Book of Psalms. Hebrew text and English translation. Translation revised by Alexander Harkavy.

Reprint of the 1915 edition which was an offprint of a Bible by the same translator. The recital of the whole Book of Psalms is widespread, whether as an act of piety by saintly individuals, or by groups of unlearned people. For this purpose "societies of reciters of psalms" (hevrot tehillim) were and continue to be formed, and in recent times a special society has been formed in Jerusalem whereby two separate groups recite the whole Book of Psalms daily at the Western Wall. The psalms are included in their entirety in all large prayer books.

          
Paragraph 2    עברית ואנגלית עמוד מול עמוד, בספירת עמודים מקבילה. דפוס צילום מתוך מהדורה של תנ"ך.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Other:    Psalms
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew, English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica