1880 Der Midrasch Kohelet August Wunsche Midrash Koheleth Ecclesiastes Leipzig

Description: This is the 165 page, original, first edition, German translation of the Midrash Rabbah on The megillah called Kohelet of the Ketubim part of the Old Testament Bible. This was the first time it was ever translated into the German language. By Lic. Dr. August Wunsche, a very well respected German Hebraist and teacher. The title page reads: Der Midrasch Kohelet Zum Ersten Male Ins Deutsche Ubertragen von Lic. Dr. August Wunsche. Neue Ausgabe.



Condition: Pages are nice, no writing in interior, comes without covers. This is the entire translation of Koheleth into German. Rare.

About The Author

Karl August Wünsche 1838-1912, was born in Hainewalde bei Zittau and died in Dresden. He was a German Christian Hebraist. He devoted his attention almost exclusively to rabbinic literature. After completing his commentaries on the Book of Hosea (1868) and Book of Joel (1872), he wrote Neue Beiträge zur Erläuterung der Evangelien aus Talmud und Midrasch (1878), the most complete collection of the parallel passages of the Talmud and the New Testament since the works of John Lightfoot and Johann Christian Schöttgen. In his Bibliotheca Rabbinica (Leipzig, 1880–85) he made a German translation of the whole of the Midrash Rabbah and the Midrash to the Five Megillot, and he also translated haggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud (1880) and of the Babylonian Talmud (1886–89), as well as the Pesiḳta (1885) and the Midrash to the Psalms (1891). Together with Jakob Winter he compiled the Geschichte der Jüdischen Litteratur (3 vols., Leipzig, 1892–95).

Attention phone-users: To actually read the words in my pictures & view tiny details. Click on browser menu, select 'Desktop site'. After reload tap on main picture, it will open in spectacular viewing quality, and you will even be able to read the tiniest words in my pictures.

This listing has pictures of the actual book or books being sold, no stock-photos or photos of similar items, I took a complete set of new pictures especially for this listing and I have carefully described the condition of this specific item that you are looking at. Thank You.

We accept all payment methods which are shown on this site as capable of accepting, including Paypal, payment via personal check or MO can be arranged via messaging me, website permitting.