LOUIS GINZBERG: JUBILEE VOLUME ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY (COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES)
New York, The American Academy For Jewish Research, 1946. Item #40096
Later Cloth. 8vo. Ix, 446; ix, 446 pages. Front port. 24 cm. In English and Hebrew. “Ginzberg (1873–1953) was one of the outstanding Talmud scholars of the first half of the 20th century; leader and the major halakhic authority of the Conservative movement in North America. ” (EJ) CONTENTS: Goldman, Solomon. The portrait of a teacher. --Cohen, Boaz. Bibliography of the writings of Prof. Louis Ginzberg. --Albright, W. F. The list of Levitic cities. --Baron, S. W. Levi Herzfeld, the first Jewish economic historian. --Bickerman, E. J. The date of Fourth Maccabees. --Cohen, Boaz. Civil bondage in Jewish and Roman law. --Efros, Israel. Saadyah's second theory of creation in its relation to Pythagoreanism and Platonism. --Gandz, Solomon. Complememtary fractons in Bible and Talmud. --Ginsberg, H. L. Psalms and inscriptions of petition and acknowledgement. --Gordis, Robert. Studies in the relationship of Biblical and rabbinic Hebrew. --Kisch, Guido. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish literature. Ginzberg, Louis, 1873-1953. Relations between Jewish and Christian courts in the Middle Ages. --Marcus, Ralph. Jewish and Greek elements in the Septuagint. --Marmorstein, A. The introduction of R. Hoshaya to the first chapter of Genesis rabba. --Neuman, A. A. The Shebet Yehudah and sixteenth century historiography. --Sonne, Isaiah. The schools of Shammai and Hillel seen from within. --Sperber, Alexander. Specimen of a Targum edition. --Spiegel, Shalom. Noah, Daniel, and Job, touching on Cannaanite relics in the legends of the Jews. --Strauss, Leo. Farabi's Plato. --Torrey, C. C. A revised view of First Esdras. --Wolfson, H. A. Maimonides on negatives attributes. Ex-library with usual marks, otherwise Very Good Condition. (FEST1-50B).
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