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hatam_soferet) wrote2009-02-12 06:38 pm
hatam_soferet) wrote2009-02-12 06:38 pm
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DOCTRINAL BIBLIOPHILIA
NY Times:
Is bibliophilia a religious impulse? You can’t walk into Sotheby’s exhibition space in Manhattan right now and not sense the devotion...
...The collection’s geographical scale is matched by its temporal breadth, which extends over a millennium...These are all books written in Hebrew or using Hebrew script, many of them rare or even unique. Most come from the earliest centuries of Hebrew printing in their places of origins and thus map out a history of the flourishing of Jewish communities around the world...
...There are extraordinary items on display here, including a Hebrew Bible handwritten in England in 1189 — the only dated Hebrew text from England before King Edward I expelled the Jews in 1290.
...There is also an exquisitely preserved edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1519-23) made by the Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice, an edition created with the advice of a panel of scholars that codified many aspects of how the Talmud is displayed and printed...
...There is also a 12th-century scroll of the Hebrew Pentateuch that came from the Samaritans...
It's on display at Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue, at 72nd Street, Manhattan, until Thursday.
They're open 9-5.30 during the week.
I've been Horribly Sick all this week and don't anticipate being especially steady on my feet tomorrow. However, I plan to be in Manhattan on Tuesday; York Ave is RIGHT over on the East side about as far as you can go, and I ought to be there by 11.45.
Who's coming?
Is bibliophilia a religious impulse? You can’t walk into Sotheby’s exhibition space in Manhattan right now and not sense the devotion...
...The collection’s geographical scale is matched by its temporal breadth, which extends over a millennium...These are all books written in Hebrew or using Hebrew script, many of them rare or even unique. Most come from the earliest centuries of Hebrew printing in their places of origins and thus map out a history of the flourishing of Jewish communities around the world...
...There are extraordinary items on display here, including a Hebrew Bible handwritten in England in 1189 — the only dated Hebrew text from England before King Edward I expelled the Jews in 1290.
...There is also an exquisitely preserved edition of the Babylonian Talmud (1519-23) made by the Christian printer Daniel Bomberg in Venice, an edition created with the advice of a panel of scholars that codified many aspects of how the Talmud is displayed and printed...
...There is also a 12th-century scroll of the Hebrew Pentateuch that came from the Samaritans...
It's on display at Sotheby’s, 1334 York Avenue, at 72nd Street, Manhattan, until Thursday.
They're open 9-5.30 during the week.
I've been Horribly Sick all this week and don't anticipate being especially steady on my feet tomorrow. However, I plan to be in Manhattan on Tuesday; York Ave is RIGHT over on the East side about as far as you can go, and I ought to be there by 11.45.
Who's coming?