1882 Der Midrasch Debarim Rabba Dr. August Wunsche Aggadah Deuteronomy Leipzig

Description: This is the 184 page, original, first edition, German translation of the Devarim Rabbah or what is known as the Midrash Rabbah on Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Hebrew pentateuch. 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 Debarim Rabba Die Haggadische Auslegung Des Fuften Buches Moses Zum Ersten Male Ins Deutsche Ubertragen von Lic. Dr. August Wunsche.
Mit noten und verbesserungen von Rabbiner Dr. J. Furst Und D. O. Straschen.

Included in the back from page 138 until the last page which is 184 is the following. 'Auszuge aus Pesikta Rabbati nach der Ausgabe von M. Friedmann.' About the notes on Pesikta Rabati at the back, keep in mind that these are not notes on Pesikta Derab Kahana, which is an entirely different work. Pesikta Rabbati (Hebrew: פסיקתא רבתי P'siqta Rabbita, "The Larger P'siqta") is a collection of aggadic midrash (homilies) on the Pentateuchal and prophetic readings, the special Sabbaths, and so on. It was composed around 845 CE and is not the same as the Pesikta deRav Kehana, it actually was probably called "rabbati" (the larger) to distinguish it from the earlier Pesikta de-Rav Kahana.

Condition: Pages are nice, no writing in interior, nicely bound. Rare.

About The Authors

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).

Meir Friedmann: Meir (Ish Shalom) Friedmann Born 1831 in Kraszna (Slovak: Kružná), district of Kashau (Košice Region), Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire. Died in 1908 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary was an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish scholar. His editions of the Midrash are the standard texts. His chief editions were the Sifre (1864), the Mekhilta (1870), Pesiqta Rabbathi (1880). At the time of his death he was editing the Sifra. Friedmann, while inspired with regard for tradition, dealt with the Rabbinic texts with modern scientific methods, and rendered conspicuous service to the critical investigation of the Midrash and to the history of early homilies. In 1844, at the age of 13, he entered the yeshiva at Ungvar, Carpathian Ruthenia region (now part of Ukraine). Later he was led by the "Bi'ur" of Moses Mendelssohn to the study of the Bible, and became deeply interested in Hebrew poetry, especially Wesseley. At twenty, while living at Miskolc, where he earned his livelihood by giving Talmud instruction, he took up secular studies. In 1858 he entered the University of Vienna. In 1864, when the Vienna bet ha-midrash was founded, he was chosen as teacher of the Bible and Midrash. Later he was hired as a professor in the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt. Among his students there was Solomon Schechter.
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