{"product_id":"further-essays-on-the-making-of-the-early-hebrew-book-9789004693197","title":"Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFurther Essays addresses aspects of early Hebrew book publication, among them book arts, little known authors, places of publication, and miscellaneous subjects. Book arts addresses pressmarks representing publishers motifs, several unusual, and the varied usage of biblical verses to entitle books. The second section focusses on the works of rabbis and scholars, once prominent but not well remembered today, noting their achievements and their varied books, encompassing such topics as biblical commentaries, Talmudic novellae, philosophy, and poetry. Several locations once important, also not well remembered today are addressed; Further Essays concludes with articles on other unrelated book topics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures  Section Introductions  Part 1 Hebrew Book Arts    1 Rare and Unusual Motifs on Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Book Title-Pages    2 The Deer Motif on Early Hebrew Book Title-Pages    3 Zafenat Pane’ah: A Further Example in the Titling of Hebrew Books    4 Heshek Shelomo: Varied Heartfelt Books so Entitled    Part 2 Makers of Hebrew Books    5 The Porto Family: Eminent Sages, Scholars, and Prolific Seventeenth-Century Authors    6 Abraham Menahem ben Jacob ha-Kohen Rapa mi-Porto (Rapaport) Ashkenazi: A Renaissance Rabbi of Interest    7 Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Jewish Scholar    8 The Albelda Family: Moses and Moses Jacob Albelda—Prominent, Eminent Scholars    9 Moses ben Baruch Almosnino: A Sixteenth-Century Multi-Faceted Sephardic Sage in Salonika    10 Judah Leib Pukhovitser: The Life and Ethical Works of a Kabbalist    11 Jacob Judah (Aryeh) de Leão Templo: A Converso Scholar, a Jewish Hakham    12 Jacob ben Elhanan Heilbronn: A Multi-Faceted Erudite Scholar    13 Solomon de Oliveyra: A Seventeenth-Century Sephardic Sage    Part 3 Places of Hebrew Books    14 Guadalajara: A Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Press of Distinction    15 Early Hebrew Printing in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe    16 A Fleeting Moment, A Short-Lived Press: Hebrew Printing in Sixteenth-Century Fez    17 Hebrew Printing in Turka: Home to a Barely Remembered Hebrew Press    18 Tarnopol: A Short-Lived Early-Nineteenth-Century Hebrew Press    19 Hebrew Printing in Lissa (Leszno): A Brief (Perchance) Transitory Moment    20 Halberstadt: A Small but Significant Hebrew Press in a Saxon Community    Part 4 Book Varia    21 For a Remembrance: Books so Entitled as a Remembrance for the Author    22 Sefer ha-Tappu’ah (Book of the Apple): Aristotle Expresses an Interest in Jewish Concepts    23 An Enigmatic Pseudo-Shklov Edition of Barukh Sheʾamar    24 Tzevi Hirsch of Nadworna’s Sefer Alpha Beta    25 Yalkut Reʾuveni: Abraham Reuben ben Hoeshke’s Popular Kabbalistic Midrashic Collection    26 R. Nathan Nata ben Reuben David Tebele Spira and His Works   Maʾamar Yayin ha-Meshummar, on the Prohibition against Drinking Stam Yeinam (Gentile Wine), and Contemporary Books on This Subject    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210879983959,"sku":"9789004693197","price":181.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/further-essays-on-the-making-of-the-early-hebrew-book-9789004693197","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}