Search Results: Judaica from Leaf and Stone Books

Leiden, Boston, Etc.: Brill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. 9004322507 . Xii, 353 pp. Bibliography, indices. Octavo. Glossy black dust jacket with blue and red to the spine, has small storage dent on the front, book itself is clean and tight, never read it appears, very nice copy. In English with Hebrew and Greek. "In 4QSamuel-a and the Text of Samuel, Jason Driesbach offers a thorough analysis of secondary readings in 4QSamuel-a (4Q51) along with those in other major witnesses to Samuel (MT, G-B , G-L ) , leading to a nuanced characterization of the scribal features and textual affiliation of 4QSamuel-a , with implications for understanding its place in text-critical studies and literary analyses of the books of Samuel." 4QSamuel-a. Has been regarded by some scholars as an untrustworthy witness to the text of Samuel and by other scholars as a crucial witness, sometimes containing lost readings. Further, some regard this scroll as a… Read More

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888448147 . Kb60 ...xv, 447 pp. Bibliography writings of Talmage; Indices. Frontis photo of Talmage. Octavo. Red cloth covers with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Book is essentially as new, clean and nice. In English with some Hebrew. ; Papers in Mediaeval Studies; Vol. 14; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 447 pages .

Cambridge: The Mediaeval Academy of America. Good with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st Thus. xliv + 216 pp. Glossarium Latino-Arabico-Hebraico-Graecum. Text, notes and prologue in Latin. Dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine are clean, just a bit of shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked. Nice copy. The present volume contains the Latin version of the Middle Commentary o the De Generatione et Corruptione. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .

Tel Aviv: Am Oved. Good with no dust jacket. 1944-1945. Hardcover. 100, [6] p. Octavo. Red and black title page. Half title. In Hebrew. Cream card covers with cartoon of a tired man with two suitcases, cream cloth spine. Front and back covers both have crease, front cover has a small blob of what looks like epoxy on one of the suitcases, general wear to the corners. Interior has some foxing but otherwise clean and unmarked although obviously read. Scarce in commerce. Navon was an Israeli caricaturist and artist, here finding humor on the frontlines and on the home front just at the end of Hitler's war. ; Cartoons; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages .

Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0268021546 . xiv, 165 pp. Sources. Octavo. Glossy grey dust jacket with b/w picture of Jewish people with hands in the air wearing stars being herded by soldiers. DJ is clean and nice, book itself is clean and tight, as never read. Very good copy. First English translation of the story of Perlasca, who found himself in Budapest at the outbreak of WWII and pretended to be the Spanish Consul in order to get thousands of Hungarian Jews out of the country. ; The Erma Konya Kess Lives Of The Just And Virtuous; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages .

New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 019509882X . Viii, 200 pp. Index. Illustrated. Octavo. Dark grey-green dust jacket with in Mylar, old price sticker mark to front Mylar, flaps intact. Book itself has pencil price on first blank, otherwise clean and unmarked. Nice copy "...a study of the city urban life in Roman Palestine during the Talmudic period, 100-400 C. E....synthesizes what is known about city life to create a paradigmatic hypothetical Palestinian city, including markets, pubs, streets, bathhouses, roads, wals, toilets and water supply." With archaeological evidence. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 200 pages .

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Fair. 1884. Hardcover. Xii + 404 pp. Green cloth boards. Book is ex-library with lots of usual interior marks as well as exterior marks. Book is in fair condition. Spine is very worn at top. Some tears on first few pages. Some foxing and spotting throughout. .

Paris: Editions Chandeigne. Good with no dust jacket. 2014. Softcover. 2915540373 . 623 pp. Notes, bibliographie, index. Entirely in French. White card wraps with brown designs, books is clean and fresh, only minor shelf wear. Presented in the form of a pastoral dialogue, this "History of the Jews", from Biblical origins to medieval persecutions and tragic Portuguese events, of which the author was a direct witness. This work is a typical example of the literature of conversos shared between two worlds and cultural traditins: the Iberian Christian tradition and the Jewish tradition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 623 pages .

Leiden: E. J. Brill. Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. xiv, 406 pp. Abkurzungen, literaturverzeichnis. In German. Dark blue cloth with blind ruling and gilt, spine has white library sticker, normal wear to covers. Interior has standard library marks including pocket, otherwise clean and unmarked. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages .

Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck. Good with no dust jacket. 2018. Hardcover. 3161550218 . Xxix, 657 pp. Glossary, Literaturverzeichnis; Personenregister, Sachregister. Large octavo. Pale grey hard covers with photo of people reading. Covers are clean and unmarked, just a hint of shelf wear, slight bit of dust at fore-edge, interior clean and unmarked, very nice copy. Entirely in German. Diese Quellensammlung zum Thema des deutschen Zionismus in der NS-Zeit enthalt 208 Dokumente aus 23 Archiven in vier Landern . Die Textquellen dokumentieren die Versharfung der Judenverfolgung von Hitlers Machtergreifung 1933 bis ins Jahr 1941 und verdeutlich die wachsende Bedeutung des Zionismus fur die deutschen Juden dieser Zeit. ; Schriftenreihe Wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen Des Leo Baeck; Vol. 77; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 657 pages .

Turnholt: Brepols. Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 978250304701 . 454 oo. Indices,bibliography. Frontis plate. In Latin and English, text with facing translation. Original orange cloth covers with gilt are clean, just a hint of shelf wear and slight in-turning of bottom corners. Interior clean and unmarked. Nice copy. The present edition of the Glossa Ordinaria on the Song of Songs is offered as a contribution to the programme Smalley proposed. While it does not pretend to be a full critical edition of the text, since a fully comprehensive investigation of the entire manuscript tradition would have ensured that this particular part of the Gloss would remain unedited this side of the new millennium, Smalley's suggestion of reproducing the early text of the Glossed Song of Songs, a text based on manuscripts dated c. 1120 - c.1170. Smalley was quite right to claim that the importance of the Gloss as a whole is as much literary as theological, and perhaps this makes the… Read More

Shanghai: Shanghai Sanlian Culture Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket. 2012. Softcover. 7542637525 . 488pp + 9 unnumbered pages. Mandarin and English languages, index. Book has white and black paper softcover with red and black text on covers and spine. Minor wear and markings on cover and spine, creasing on spine. Text is clear and unmarked. ; Chinese Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 497 pages .

Dulles, Virginia: Brill Academic Pub. Good with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 9004098518 . vii + 165 pp + ads. Frontis photograph of Eduard Nielsen. Essays in English except for Lemaire's in French and Soggin in German. Brown cloth with blind ruling and gilt to covers and spine are clean, interior has normal library markings including pocket, otherwise clean and unmarked. Good copy. Includes: Pharoah Shoshenq's Campaign to Palestine; avid and the Ark in 2 Samuel 6; The Mountain of God in Psalm 68:16; Did Joab Climb Warren's Shaft?; You Shall Surely Not Die; Cycle primitif d'Abraham et contexte geographico-historique; City Dwellers or Adminstros Further Light on the Canaanites; The Iron Age of Northern Jordan; The Promoting Mother A Literary Motif in the Ugaritic Txts and in the Bible; Dvine Names and epithets in Genesis 49:24b-25a Some Methodological and Traditio-Historical Remarks; Genesis Kapitel 34. Eros und Thanatos; The Book of Joshua A Hasmonaean Manifesto? The… Read More

Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University. Good with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 965223303X . KB31...x, 735, [3], 2 folding maps. Indexes, glossary, genealogical table. Dark green hardcover with leather look, gilt title, some minor rubbing at the corners, top corner a little bumped. Interior one page was folded in storage, otherwise clean and unmarked. Very scarce 1st Magnes edition of this work. Intro and commentary in English, text in French. Includes more than 3500 regesta in French and original documents mostly from the Archivo general de la Corona de Aragon... The sources, which cover a period of 114 years from 1213 to 1327 throw light on the political, religious, economic, social, communal and cultural life of the Jews in the Aragonese-Catalan empire during the reigns of James I-James II. ; Hispania Judaica; Vol. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 735 pages; From the publisher: This is the richest documentary evidence ever published on Jews of any land. The… Read More

Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer. Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 3170051121 . x, 402pp + 4 unnunmbered pages. German language, appendix, references. Book has blue paper hardcover with black text on covers and spine. Minor marks on covers. Ex library with pocket on back pastedown and stamps, otherwise text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages .

New York: Wecker. Fair. 1927. Softcover. 464 pages. Entirely in Yiddish, front to back publishing. Some ads and photos. Card paper cover with red. Front cover is detached and badly chipped. Back cover entirely missing, spine cover is missing. Interior is otherwise intact and unmarked, except an information sticker put at the bottom of page 464 explaining what the book is, partly affecting text. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 464 pages .

Leiden & Boston: Brill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. 9004140123 . Xv, 478, [vi] pp. References, index. 4 maps, numerous figs. Photos, document facs. Large octavo. Glossy dust jacket brilliant blue fading to yellow, with white, has minimal shelf wear. Book itself is clean and unmarked except a small gift inscription on first free endpaper signed "Isaac". "This fascinating microhistory unveils networks of extended interpersonal relationships between Jewish villagers and members of their Muslim surroundings in the decades preceding their 1949 departure from Lower Yemen. In a multi-layered narrative crafted from letters and legal documents in Arabic and an accompanying supply of Judeo-Arabic narratives, the book portrays how religiously subordinated individuals strove to pursue their interests without forgoing the protection of the dominant majority. At once shedding new light on both Jewish history and on rural Yemeni-Muslim history,… Read More

Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns. Very Good with no dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. 1575061309 . Xii, 423 pp. Indices. Octavo. Illustrated with b/w figs, maps and tables. Dark brown glossy hard cover with ancient gold coin is clean and fresh. Interior tight and clean. This was a review copy and looks to have been very lightly handled. These essays focus on the century during which the Persian Empire fell to Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kingdoms came to the fore. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 423 pages .

New York: Bloch Publishing Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Xiii + 119 pp. 6 appendices and index at rear. English and Hebrew text. Black cloth boards. Book is ex-library with usual interior and exterior marks. Book is otherwise in good condition. Minimal wear, and no non-library marks. ; Ex-Library; 119 pages .

Brussels: Racine. Good. 2016. Softcover. 2873869798 . 311, [v] pp. Indexes, bibliographies, filmographie. In French. Paper covers with b/w image of Jewish families being marched off by Nazi soldiers. In good condition except a slight storage bend to the book and back cover has a crease at top corner, interior is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages .