Studies and Essays in Honor of Abraham A. Neuman, President, Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, Philadelphia.
Leiden: E.J. Brill for the Dropsie College, Philadelphia, 1962. First Edition. Hardbound. Octavo, black leather with gold lettering and with minor wear at the hinges, tipped in real photo photo frontispiece of Neuman, 13 single-sided typed pp. [650] pp., approximately 100 blank pp. bound in to make for a larger volume. Brill's Proof Copy No. 1. Very Good. Item #78689
A bound version uniting all of the elements that made up this moch-up of the final edition. Articles are "Introduction," Solomon Zeitlin, "The Oral Tradition of Pre-Crusade Ashkenazic Jewry," Irving A. Agus, "Medieval Nationalism and Jewish Serfdom," Salo W. Baron, "Civilization of 'The Religious,'" Meir Ben-Horin, "The Etymology of Arabic Ma'tam 'Mourning Assembly,'" Meir Bravmann, "Some Hebrew Manuscripts from Seville," Francisco G. Burgos, "The Growth and Progress of Modern Hebrew," William Chomsky, "Plurima Mortis Imago," Godfrey Rolles Driver, "Jewish Participants in the Polish Insurrection of 1863," Abraham G. Duker, "Concerning Experience and Revelation," Morton S. Enslin, "The Story of Ascama I of the Spanish and Portugese Jewish Congregation of London with Special Reference to Responsa Material," Isadore Epstein, "Home Rituals and the Spanish Synagogue," Solomon B. Freehof, "Samaritan Proverbs," Theodore H. Gaster, "The Papal Bull Sicut Judeis," Solomon Grayzel, "The YQTL -QTL (QTL-YQTL) Sequence of Identical Verbs in Hebrew and Ugaritic," Moshe Idel, "New Light on the Epoch of Akabiah b. Mahaalel," Sidney Hoenig, "The Composition and Transmission of Averroes' 'Ma'amar be-'Esem ha-Galgal," Arthur Hyman, "On Being Jewish Today," Horace M. Kallen, "S. Baer's Unpublished Targum Onkelos Text," Abraham I. Katsh, "The Messianic Idea in Qumran," William S. LaSor, "The Liturgical Use of Psalm 78:38," Leon J. Liebrich, "The Tribal System of Israel and Related Groups in the Period of the Judges," Harry M. Orlinsky, "The Saadia - David ben Zakkai Controversy: A Structural Analysis," Ellis Rivkin, "The Ordinary Jew in the Middle Ages," Cecil Roth, "Rabbi Isaac Tama and the Order of the Holy Sepulcre," Simon R. Schwartzfuchs, "The Beginnings of East-European Jewry in Legend and Historiography," Bernard Weinryb, "The Colonial Jewish Peddler," Maxwell Whiteman, "Ezra Stiles Writes a Hebrew Letter," Edwin Wolf 2nd, "Saadia and the Trinity and Incarnation," Harry A. Wolfson, "Johanan The High Priest's Abrogations and Decrees," Solomon Zeitlin, "Translation and Mistranslation in the Apocalypse of Baruch," Frank Zimmermann, "Exchanges Between Bruscius and Delmedigo," Israel Halperin, "An Ancient Tradition about the Beginnings of the Sadducees and the Boethusians," Lious Finkelstein, From 'Sefer Alfonso,'" Judah Rosenthal. The Last Three Articles are in Hebrew.
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