Synopsis Bibliothecae Exegeticae in Novum Testamentum. Kurzgefaster Auszug der gründlichsten und nutzbarsten Auslegeungen über alle Bücher Neues Testaments, By Christoph Starke Published by Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf. Berlin 1744. An early Essay on the Bible. On the protective page is a beautiful dedication in the handwriting and signature of the father of the Hebrew Enlightenment movement, Moshe Mendelssohn, to the fellow Israel Yaakov son of Rabbi Yitzchak. Tevet 9, 1746.
"ב"ה בערלין ט' בחדש טבת תק"ו.
זה הספר תשורה זוטרתא להבחור ישראל יעקב ב"ר יצחק
פישל געלדרן לבבך לב חכם ותלמודך בידך
קנה דעת בחכמת ישראל ובחכמת העמים
ראשית חכמה יראת ה' כמאמר רבותנו חכמה בגויים
תאמין תורה שבגויים אל תאמין
הדורש בך טובות בכל יום
משה בן הסופר ר' מנחם מנדל מדעסויא"
Moshe Mendelssohn [Mendelssohn 1729-1786] a German-Jewish philosopher, one of the fathers of the Jewish Enlightenment movement. The figure that most represents the beginning of the modern era in the history of European Jewry. On his mother's side he was a descendant of the Ram'a. His father was a sofer st'm, and he was educated in traditional Jewish education, which included Torah study and Talmud with their commentaries. As a young boy, Mendelssohn was recognized as a multi-talented prodigy. On the general German level, Mendelssohn was involved in the contemporary German Enlightenment discourse, and published books and articles that were highly appreciation and circulated. On the Jewish level, he published the first modern Hebrew periodical "kohelet musar", published a German translation and an annotation of five Torah Pentateuchs, and gathered around him a circle of students and Followers, from whom the Jewish Enlightenment movement arose. Mendelssohn has since been perceived as the the father of the Enlightenment movement, and his character has centered around it the positive and negative attitude towards this movement and its ideas.
[14], 1279 pp. 24 cm. Nice original leather cover. The front cover is detached. Only one moth mark on the cover. Other than that the book is in very good condition .
