Exhibition from the 2001-02 Fellows of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

And We have Revealed to You...

The Song of Songs in Medieval Northern France
Peshat Exegesis Against its Historical and Cultural Background

Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam), 11th/12th cent.
Perush `al Kohelet ve-Shir ha-shirim (Commentary on Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs)
edited by Adolph Jellinek. Leipzig: 1855

German and Hebrew title pages to Jellinek 1855 edition

German and Hebrew title pages to Jellinek's 1855 edition of the Rashbam's commentaries to Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs

Pages 36-37: Forward and beginning of commentary to Song of Songs

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