Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days

Wiliam G (Gershon Zev) Braude (trans.); Israel J. Kapstein (trans.)

ISBN 10: 0827606796 / ISBN 13: 9780827606791

Published by Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, 2002

About this Item

Hardcover book bound in the publisher's original full cloth-gilt. 19 cm. 795 pages. The book is in fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright.

Seller Inventory # 3185

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827606796
• ISBN 13: 9780827606791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Judaica

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Synopsis

A JPS classic reissue of this great work of Midrash

Long known only to scholars and specialists, Pesikta de-Rab Kahana is a masterpiece of midrashic literature. A collection of discourses for special Sabbaths and festival days compiled and organized during the fifth century, it was well known and studied from the end of that century until it disappeared sometime in the sixteenth century. From manuscripts discovered in 1868 and still others 100 years later, it was reborn. In 1975 JPS brought it to English readers through Braude and Kapstein’s translation.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Hebrew