1909 Midrash Le'Olam Gadol Alphabet Rabbi Akiba Ten Words Ma'aseh Torah Wunsche

Description: This is the 300 page, original, first edition, fourth volume of the large German work on the 'Smaller Midrashim'. This volume really stands on its own as it is really a separate category of older Midrashic literature in its own genre. It includes the Judeo-Ethical, Letters And Numbers Symbolism of the Midrashic Literature. This was the first time it was ever translated into the German language. Done by Lic. Dr. August Wunsche, a very well respected German Hebraist and teacher. The title page reads: Aus Israels Lehrhallen Kleine Midraschim Zur Judischen Ethik, Buchstaben und Zahlen-Symbolik, Zum Ersten Male Ubersetzt von Dr. August Wunsche. IV Band. Leipzig. Verlag von Eduard Pfeiffer 1909. Translated: 'From Israel's teaching halls, the small Midrashim On Jewish Ethics, Letters And Numbers Symbolism, Translated For The First Time By Dr. August by Dr. August Wunsche. IV volume. Leipzig. Publisher Eduard Pfeiffer 1909

It includes: (Contents shown in picture) 1. Midrasch Le'olam 2. Midrasch Gadol und Gedolah 3. Perek Schalom (Vom Frieden) 4. Midrasch der zehn Worte 5. Dreizehn ethische Erzahlungen 6. Zwei Erzahlungen 7. Erste (Altere) rezension des Alphabet-Midrasch des R. Akiba 8. Zweite (jungere) Rezension des Alphabet-Midrasch des R. Akiba 9. Midrasch des R Akiba ben Joseph 10 Deutung der Buchstaben und Buchstabenverbindungen des hebraischen Alphabets im Traktate Schobbat. 11. Midrasch Maase Thora Nachtrage und Berichtigungen Translation: 1. Midrash L'olam 2. Midrash Gadol and Gedolah 3. Perek Shalom (Of Peace) 4. Midrash of Ten Words 5. Thirteen Ethical Narratives 6. Two Narratives 7. First (Older) Review of R. Akiba's Alphabet Midrash 8. Second (younger) review of the alphabet midrash of R. Akiba 9. Midrash of R Akiba ben Joseph 10 Interpretation of the letters and letter combinations of the Hebrew alphabet in the tractate Shabbat. 11. Midrash Ma'aseh Torah Additions and Corrections

Condition: Pages are nice, no writing in interior. This work's covers are lacking, but pages are bound together and nicely attached. 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).

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