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Spanish Edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan)
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This is a Spanish edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan). David Nieto’s best-known work constitutes a defense of the oral law and rabbinic tradition, addressed to former New Christians…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Biblical Commentary
Printed page of Spanish text under decorative, columned archway with lintel featuring winged men with helmets holding banners on either side of portrait of bearded man holding a book.
Metsaḥ Aharon (Aaron’s Forehead)
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An event occurred to a person named Samuel, who was a great wise man down on his luck. He converted from Judaism and became one of the uncircumcised, accepting their religion. He learned their…

Contributor:

Aaron Garish

Places:

Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)

Date:

ca. 1527

Subjects:

Muslim-Jewish relations, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics, Justice system, Miracles

Categories:

Literature, Folklore, Biblical Commentary