DIE BEURTEILUNG DES ESTHERBUCHES UND DES PURIMFESTES BEI DEN JUDISCHEN GESETZESLEHRERN DER NACHALTTESTAMENTLICHEN ZEIT.
Pressburg, Adolf Alkalay, 1905. Item #38740
First edition. 8vo. 44 pages; 22.5 cm. In German. Title translates to “The Judgement of the Book of Esther and the Purim Festival Among the Teachers of the Law of the Post-Old Testament Period. ” The inaugural dissertation of the Philosophical faculty of the University of Berne to the degree of doctorate. Sigmund Jampel was a “rabbi and Bible scholar. Jampel, who was born in Galicia, studied Semitics at Heidelberg University and subsequently became rabbi at Schwedt, Brandenburg in 1919. He was among the first Jewish Bible scholars who recognized the value of archaeological and epigraphical finds for establishing the antiquity of the historical accounts of the Bible and the questioning of Wellhausen’s hypotheses. His work (most of which was first published in MGWJ but was also intended for the general reader) includes… Das Buch Esther auf Geschichtlichkeit kritisch untersucht (1907) , which takes into account the archaeological excavations of Susa which authenticated the description of the royal palace in the Book of Esther” (JewishVirtualLibrary.org 2017) . SUBJECT(S) : Purim, Book of Esther, Commentaries. Library stamps. Minimal staining and rubbing. Mild edgewear. Cover wrappers missing. Slight toning. Very good condition. (GER-51-94).
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