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Jacob Huli’s Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue)
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…

Contributor:

Jacob Huli

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1730

Subjects:

Print, Bible, Ladino, Jewish languages, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Biblical Commentary
Printed page of Hebrew text framed by arch with columns of garlands and a border of Hebrew text.
Introduction to the Commentary on Numbers—Me’am Lo’ez by Isaac Magriso
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…

Contributor:

Me’am Lo’ez

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1764

Subjects:

Bible, Economic life, Print, Talmud, Aggadah

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Biblical Commentary