From Persia with Love: The Judaeo-Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon Ben Yerōḥām on the Book of Esther - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael G. WechslerSeries:Tudes Sur Le Juda Sme M Di Val #47Publish date:4/24/2025Pages:502
Language:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004191334ISBN-10:900419133XUPC:9789004191334Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Judaism, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Sacred Writings, Old Testament, TheologySize:9.25 x 6.10 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.982Product ID:SCH6VCCA20
From Persia with Love: The Judaeo-Arabic Translation and Commentary of Salmon Ben Yerōḥām on the Book of Esther
This volume comprises an edition and translation of one of the earliest specimens of Jewish programmatic commentary on the book of Esther. The commentary's author, Salmon b. Yerōḥām, is a central early figure in the "Golden Age" of Karaism (late-9th-11th cent.), a Jewish scripturalist and penitential movement centered at that time in Jerusalem. Among the various facets of Salmon's commentary that...
Series: Tudes Sur Le Juda Sme M Di Val #47
Language:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004191334ISBN-10:900419133XUPC:9789004191334Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:Judaism, Biblical StudiesBook Topic:Sacred Writings, Old Testament, TheologySize:9.25 x 6.10 x 1.13 inchesWeight:1.982Product ID:SCH6VCCA20
Michael G. Wechsler, Ph.D. (2006), University of Chicago, is co-editor of Brill's Karaite Texts and Studies series and, in addition to authoring numerous articles on pre-modern Jewish Bible exegesis, has edited and translated the commentaries on Esther by Saadia Gaon (Brill, 2015) and Yefet ben ʿEli (Brill, 2008), as well as the commentaries on Ruth and Esther by Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi (Magnes,...
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