Herbert Danby

Author of The Mishnah

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Herbert Danby (1889-1953) was an Anglican priest and a professor at Oxford University who spent a number of years in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. His interest in, and translation into English of, ancient Jewish writings helped to change the attitudes of scholars away from show more anti-Semitism in the mid-twentieth century. show less

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The Mishnah (1933) 284 copies

A concise English-Hebrew dictionary : with the English pronunciation in Hebrew transliteration (1942) 17 copies

The Code of Maimonides. Book Ten. The Book of Cleanness. Translated By Herbert Danby (1954) 11 copies

Tractate Sanhedrin, Mishnah and Tosefta : the judical procedure of the Jews, as codified towards the end of the second… (1919) 5 copies

The Jew and Christianity; some phases, ancient and modern, of the Jewish attitude towards Christianity 1 copy

A concise English-Hebrew dictionary with the English pronunciation in Hebrew transliteration by H. Danby and M.H. Segal 1 copy

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