Hebrew and English Lexicon, Selig Newman, London 1834 
ספר השרשים - Only Edition
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- Lot Number 54465
- Title (English) Hebrew and English Lexicon
- Title (Hebrew) ספר השרשים
- Note Only Edition
- Author Selig Newman
- City London
- Publisher B. Wertheim
- Publication Date 1834
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 2620538
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Physical Description
Only editon, viii, 732 pp., quarto, 215:128 mm., wide margins, light age staining.. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
Detail Description
Selig Newman was a German Hebraist; he "was educated at Posen, but in 1814 went to England and was appointed minister to the Plymouth [Jewish] congregation, teaching Hebrew at the same time at the University of Oxford. His faith debarred him from a professorship, but among his pupils were numbered many distinguished Christian and Jewish scholars. While in London Newman took part in a spirited debate with some Christians on the Messianic prophecies. At an advanced age he sailed for America and settled in New York, gaining a livelihood as teacher and writer. In 1850 he published a work entitled 'The Challenge Accepted, ' consisting of a series of dialogues between a Jew and a Christian respecting the fulfilment of the prophecies on the advent of the Messiah. He published also: 'Emendations of the English Version of the Old Testament, ' 1839; a 'Hebrew and English Lexicon, ' 1841; and a Hebrew grammar, which was much used for elementary instruction among English Jews.
f.t.: A Hebrew and English Lexicon containing all the words of tyhe Old Testament with the Chaldee words in Daniel, Ezra, and the Targums; and also the Talmudical and Rabbinical words dericed from them.