First English language edition. Later Cloth, 8vo. 33, 358 pages; 29 cm. In English with Hebrew excerpts. First English-language publication of any part of Maimonides’ “Yad Hachazakah." Maimonides “was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician” (Wikipedia 2017). Hermann Hedwig Bernard “was an English Hebraist, for many years Hebrew teacher in the University of Cambridge… An apostate from Judaism, Bernard was born Hirsch Ber Hurwitz and hailed from Uman, Ukraine. He is purported to have played chess with and read German stories before Rabbi Nachman of Breslov” (Wikipedia 2017) . “They are chiefly intended, however, to make the English reader acquainted, at a comparatively trifling expense of time and labour, with the sentiments of Maimonides respecting some of the most interesting and important questions in Theology, (such, for example, as regard the Deity, the Angels, Prophecy, Sin, Repentance, Free-will, Predestination, &c. , which are discussed by him in his justly celebrated work the Yad Hachazakah; a work, recognized by the Jews, even at the present day, as an admirable exposition of their law and of the main principles of their creed. ”. SUBJECT(S) : Jewish ethics, Maimonides. Very Light Wear to boards, bit of foxing to title page and final leaf, small old tape repair to outer margin of 2 leaves, otherwise Very Good condition. (HEB-51-4A)