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DACHS, Fridericus Bernhardus (editor); CRAMER, Johann Jakob; MILL, David
Masekhet Sukah mi-Talmūd bavli Hoc est, Talmudis Babylonici Codex Succa, sive de tabernaculorum festo, ritus ejus atque ceremonias exponens Latinitate donavit,
notisque philologicis ex utroque Talmude, aliisque veterum ac modernorum rabbinorum scriptis illustravit Fridericus Bernhardus Dach … Accedit Cl. Joh. Jacobi Crameri … Cum praefatione viri clarissimi Davidis Millii. Utrecht : apud Gysbertum a Paddenburg, 1726. Small quarto (210 x 160 mm), expertly rebound in panelled navy leather sympathetically styled to the period, spine with raised bands and title lettered in gilt; new endpapers; title in red and black; pp. [xvi], 580, [16]; text in Hebrew and Latin; title with small pale water stain and tiny nicks at top corner, light foxing to preliminaries and last few leaves, occasional spotting otherwise very clean throughout; a good copy with wide margins.
This work comprises the Hebrew text of the Tractate Sukkah, with Latin translation and commentary. The Sukkah is a tractate of both the Mishnah and Talmud which concerns laws relating to Sukkot. While the publication was intended for Christian Hebraists, with the likely ulterior motive of facilitating the condemnation of aspects of Jewish law, its circulation probably also achieved the opposite effect to some extent: the very act of familiarising Christian scholars with the text may have tended to yet further demythologise Jewish law and ethics for some of its most virulent critics.