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(More customer reviews)I don't understand why the first review categorizes this as a 'newsletter'. It is a complete hardbound definitive discussion with 169 b&w clear illustrations + many (unnumbered) illustrative manuscripts.
[I am not sure Amazon will print my present
review since other companies sell this expensive book at a lesser price).
View Amazon's table of contents and you will see that this definitive book covers all aspects of Jewish manuscripts, including various types of scripts (hard to find in other books).
If this subject/area interests you, its uniqueness probably justifies the price and you will not be disappointed.
As mentioned in its introduction it is an updated elaboration and reorganization of the author's several previous (only in French) books. The translation from the French is excellent -- no doubt due to the person (outstanding Jewish teacher and author).
Again, if this is the book you are looking for, it is the best I have seen; and its organization is most satisfying.
I consider it a masterpiece.
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Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish medieval life, and anyone wishing to engage with Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts, how to study them, and their literary genres. Colette Sirat offers a comprehensive overview of these subjects in this illustrated introduction.The book is a re-structured, extended and updated version of an earlier presentation in French.It has been translated from the author's revision of her earlier French book, and edited for an English readership, by Hebrew scholar Nicholas de Lange.
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