RARE FIRST EDITION of a monograph on the influence of Alexandrian hermeneutics on Palestinian biblical exegesis in the Hellenistic epoch by Zecharias Frankel (1801-1875) - the preeminent authority on the history of Talmudic literature and the first scholar in Jewish studies who specialized in this field. 230x138mm. X+254 pages (last page paginated as 354 by mistake). Quarter-cloth rebound Hardcover. Cover corners bumped, cover slightly stained, cover bottom corners peeling. Ex-Libris on front inner cover (James Heller). Page edges marbled. Pages yellowing and age-stained. [SUMMARY]: This rare pioneering philological study of the Jewish-Hellenistic religious and cultural environment in the first centuries B.C. is otherwise in good condition.