Die Fünf Bücher Der Weisung [Five Books of Moses].

BUBER, Martin.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 148291

Berlin: Lambert Schneider, 1930.

First edition of this German translation and interpretation of the Torah. Small octavo, original publisher’s black cloth with leather spine labels, top stain yellow. Boldly signed by Martin Buber on the front free endpaper. In near fine condition. From the collection of Rabbi Walter Jacobs of Pittsburgh. A sheet with a notice on one side by Buber and errata on the other, and another sheet with ads for a festschrift honoring Buber and a book by Rosenzweig laid in.

Die Fünf Bücher der Weisung is Martin Buber’s and Franz Rosenzweig’s influential German translation of the Torah, completed as part of their broader effort to render the Hebrew Bible in a way that preserves its linguistic and theological richness. Departing from conventional translations, their work emphasizes the oral and poetic qualities of the original Hebrew, seeking to convey its rhythm, repetition, and spiritual immediacy. Buber’s existential philosophy and Rosenzweig’s dialogical theology shape the translation’s interpretive framework, highlighting the relational nature of the divine-human encounter central to the biblical text. It is a major and pioneering milestone in Bible translation.