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Bidding Information
Lot #
25954
Auction End Date
2/16/2010 11:15:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Bible & Talmudical Stories
Title (Hebrew)
אנטיוכוס ועוד בתפסיר פרסי
Author
[Ms. - Judeo Persian] Reuven ben Ben-Judah, scribe
City
Persia
Publication Date
1888
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
142 ff., 174:108 mm., wide margins, usual age and use staining, ink on paper, 13 lines per ruled page, beautiful Persian rabbinic script with points, signed, and dated by scribe, bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed. Complete and bound as issued.
Detailed
Description
Collection of Biblical and Talmudic stories and events in Judeo-Persian tafsir and prose with points. The Persian community dates back to Biblical times and has for centuries followed their traditional ways of religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Lacking the printing press these sheltered communities employed scribes to write their religious prayer and study books. Some customs in the prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Persia and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Persia
Subject
Bible:
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History:
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Characteristic
Language:
Judeo-Persian
Manuscript Type
Other:
Book
Kind of Judaica
