Menasseh ben Israel.

De resurrectione mortuorum libri III. Quibus animae immortalitas & corporis resurrectio contra Zaducaeos comprobatur: caussae item miraculosae resurrectionis exponuntur: deque judicio extremo, & mundi instauratione agitur: ex sacris literis, & veteribus Rabbinis. [bound with another of his works, as below].

      Typis & sumptibus auctoris, Amstelodami 1636 - [bound with his] Dissertatio de fragilitate humana ex lapsu Adami deque divino in bono opere auxilio, exrsacris scripturis, et veterum Hebraeorum libris Amstelodami: Sumptibus auctoris, 1642. 8vo. 16, 141, [1] pp. Two important works by the great rabbi, scholar, and printer. The first, here in its first edition in Latin (translated by the author from the original Spanish), treats of resurrection and found great displeasure in Rome, as indicated by its being placed on the Index Expurgatorius in 1656. The second work deals with life after the Fall, the quality of that life, the life cycle, and the role of good deeds. It is a translation of Menasseh's De la fragilidad humana e inclinaci¢n del hombre al pecado. => Both are from the author's own press, one of the first Hebrew-language presses in the Netherlands. 8vo. [24], 133, [11], 137-241, [11], 245-346, [6] pp. I: Roth, Menasseh Ben Israel, p. 93-4; Silva Rosa 25; Abbot 1954; Steinschneider 6205:9. II: Steinschneider 6205:11. Contemporary stiff vellum, a bit sprung. Ex-library with call number on spine, bookplate, and no other markings. Title-page of second work backed and fore-edge (only) of title missing some of the original paper. [Attributes: First Edition]