Apr 24, 2006 - Sale 2076

Sale 2076 - Lot 293

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SIMON, RICHARD. Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament. [24], 612 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked retaining original backstrip with 19th-century morocco lettering piece, white ink shelf number on spine. Np: "Suivant la Copie, imprimée à Paris," 1680

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Second edition. In Simon's Histoire Critique, first published in 1678 in Paris and suppressed, "he denied that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, arguing from the existence of duplicate accounts of the same incident and the variations of style. He is thus generally regarded as the father of OT criticism" (ODCC).