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The Massorah, Christian David Ginsburg, London 1880-1905

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  • Lot Number 48000
  • Title (English) The Massorah
  • Title (Hebrew) המסורה
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author Christian David Ginsburg
  • City London
  • Publisher (Vienna, Carl Fromme)
  • Publication Date 1880-1905
  • Estimated Price - Low 500
  • Estimated Price - High 1,000

  • Item # 1426115
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Physical Description

Only edition, four tall volumes, folio, 500:316 mm., wide margins, age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
 
   

Detail Description

Christian David Ginsburg (1831–1914) was a Polish-born British Bible scholar and a student of the Masoretic tradition in Judaism. He was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw but converted to Christianity at the age of 15.

Coming to England shortly after the completion of his education in the Rabbinic College at Warsaw, Ginsburg continued his study of the Hebrew Scriptures, with special attention to the Megillot. The first result was a translation of the Song of Songs, with a historical and critical commentary, published in 1857. A similar translation of Ecclesiastes, followed by treatises on the Karaites, the Essenes, and the Kabbala, kept the author prominently before biblical students while he was preparing the first sections of his magnum opus, the critical study of the Masorah.

Beginning in 1867 with the publication of Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible, Hebrew and English, with notices, and the Masoret haMasoret of Elias Levita, in Hebrew, with translation and commentary, Ginsburg took rank as an eminent Hebrew scholar. In 1870, he was appointed one of the first members of the committee for the revision of the English version of the O.T. under contract with the Trinitarian Bible Society. His life-work culminated in the publication of the Masorah, in three volumes (1880–1886), followed by the Massoretico-critical edition of the Hebrew Bible (1894), and the elaborate introduction to it (1897).

Title: The Massorah, compiled from manuscripts, alphabetically and lexically arranged, by Christian D. Ginsburg..

 

Hebrew Description

על פי כתבי יד עתיקים... ערוכה וסדורה במערכות אלפא ביתא ועל פי השרשים ביד כריסטאין דוד גינצבורג... חלק א-[ד].

לא נשלם.

חלק א: אלף-יוד. (דפוס געארג בראג, (Vienna, תר"ם. [7], 758 עמ’.

חלק ב: כף-תיו. (דפוס קארל פראממע, (Vienna, תרמ"ג. [11], 829, [1] עמ’.

חלק ג: נוספות. (דפוס קארל פראממע, (Vienna, תרמ"ה. [9], 383 עמ’.

עמ’ 53-105: "המסורה מתימן... ספר חלק הדקדוק על כד ספרים שחיבר ... ר’ יחיא [ב"ר יוסף] צאלח". עמ’ 106-129: "מספר הללי הסופר, מלאים וחסרים בתורה". עמ’ 135: חלופין מספר יריחו. ‬

עמ’ 175-190: "אלין פלוגתא שבין נפתלי ובין אשר". עמ’ 191-206: "ספר שבע שמות ([של ה’] הנמצאים בכל המקרא ... עם התרגום שעליהם)".

עמ’ 207-294: "המסורה מצופוט קאלי ([מאת] אשר המלמד הסופר הזקן הגדול)". עמ’ 295-326: "מסורתא אחריתא מצופוט קאלי... לרבנו אהרן בן מר[נא] משה בן מר[נא] ורב[נא] אשר". ‬

[Vol. 4]: The Massorah, translated into english with a critical and exegetical commentary by Christian D. Ginsburg ... Vienna, tip. Carl Fromme, 1897-1905. [3], 546 p.

 

References

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000148677;  Wikipedia