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

Kahana, R. Braude, William G. (Gershon Zev); Kapstein, Israel J., Trans. Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana’s Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, (1975). (First Edition). 8vo. lvii, 593 pp. Tan cloth binding with green lettering to spine in original dust jacket. Green endpapers. Work of Midrashic Literature on the Shabbath and Jewish High Holidays (see bellow). Translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. Very minor age wear to dj, with closed tears and creasing to head and tail of dj spine.. Ex libris to inside of front board. Otherwise clean and tight. Very good condition. vg. Hardcover.

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. (Source: Jewish Publication Society)

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