Skip to main content

Bloomsbury Home

Pesiqta Rabbati

A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps, Volume 2

Pesiqta Rabbati cover

Pesiqta Rabbati

A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps, Volume 2

Quantity
In stock
$144.00 RRP $160.00 Website price saving $16.00 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks

Description

Published here for the first time is volume two of the complete manuscript material of Pesiqta Rabbati, a major rabbinic work from 5th or 6th century Palestine. Pasiqta Rabbati is a religious text that expresses rabbinic, apocalyptic, messianic, gnostic, and mystical traditions. Based upon the annual cycle of biblical passages for the Jewish Holy Days and special sabbaths, the text demonstrates the artful form of the rabbinic homily and the midrash method of scriptural exegesis. All extant Hebrew manuscripts (located in Budapest, Cambridge, New York, Parma, Philadelphia, Rome and Vienna) as well as the 17th century editio princeps are presented here in a synoptic edition, allowing the reader to view the texts in adjacent columns without emendation. The English introduction summarizes the academic research in respect to Pesiqta Rabbati.

Product details

Published 23 Oct 2008
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 526
ISBN 9780761843245
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 279 x 216 mm
Series Studies in Judaism
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Rivka Ulmer

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging