[Rarebooks] FS: Krauss [TOLEDOT YESHU] DAS LEBEN JESU NACH JUDISCHEN QUELLEN

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Krauss, Samuel, Herausgegeben und Erlaeutert. DAS LEBEN JESU NACH 
JUDISCHEN QUELLEN [TOLEDOT YESHU]. Berlin: S. Cavalry, 1902. viii, 
309 pp. 8vo. Three quarter black cloth over marbled paper-covered 
boards (hardback).  First edition. Includes bibliographical 
references and index. Text in German, Hebrew and Aramaic; discussion 
in German.

Samuel Krauss's brilliant analysis of the Toledot Yeshu, a 
compilation of stories told about Jesus and the early Church of which 
Voltaire wrote: "the most ancient Jewish writing which has been 
transmitted to us against our religion. This is a life of Jesus 
Christ, completely contrary to our holy evangelists." Written during 
the late Talmudic period, the work was intended to satirize the 
Gospels. Krauss, a Hungarian philologist, historian, and talmudic 
scholar, (and author of over a 1000 works including his Talmudische 
Archaeologie), showed how the mainly Christian sources were reworked 
and mingled with folklore. Still the best source for this underlying 
work as well as a critique. Reprinted in 1977 and 1994 but hard to 
find in any edition.

A very good copy, a few tiny chips to the spine ends, boards and 
extremities rubbed, owner's signature to free end paper and title 
page, binding solid.   [26498]  $200.00

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