Subject: Bible. O.T. Joshua

This book contains critical and practical notes on the Books of Joshua and Judges. Authored by George Bush, a professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at New York City University, it was published by E. French at 146 Nassau Street in 1838. Bush was considered one of the foremost Hebraic scholars of his time.

This is the first rabbinical work in English translation published in North America. Published in New York in 1840 by M.M. Noah & A.S. Gould, this book is a translation of the medieval Hebrew text, *The Book of Jasher*, compiled from the Babylonian Talmud and other Jewish sources, and intermixed with Arabic legends and passages from the Bible. The book's content is divided into sections covering the pre-Mosaic period, the Mosaic period, and a smaller section on later history. The preface is by M.M. Noah. This copy is considered to be the first U.S. edition of this translation.