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LOT 235:
MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.
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MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.
De Creatione Problemata XXX.
FIRST EDITION. Text in Latin. Printers device on title (Yaari no. 57).
pp. (14), 156, (2). Few light stains in places, f. K:1 with small tear along outer margin not affecting text. Modern boards. 12mo. Silva Rosa no. 21
Amsterdam: By the Author 1635
The first of Menasseh's philosophical texts, focusing here on the Jewish notion of creatio ex nihilo. Following in the footsteps of Maimonides, Menasseh sought to disprove the Aristotelian notion of the pre-eternity of the world.
