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The Psalms, Oxford 1879
ספר תהלים - Unrecorded - No copy NLI & other major collections
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Details
- Lot Number 49236
- Title (English) The Book of Psalms
- Title (Hebrew) ספר תהלים
- Note Unrecorded - No copy NLI & other major collections
- City Oxford
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Publication Date 1879
- Estimated Price - Low 200
- Estimated Price - High 500
- Item # 1525900
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Description
Physical Description
[4], 112 pp., octavo, 198:130 mm., wide uncut margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued.
Unrecorded in the bibliography.
Detail Description
Book of Psalms in Hebrew without points, appears to have been printed for use by students at Oxford.
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.