1889-1893 HEBRAICA. First Academic Journal Dedicated to Hebrew & Semitic Studies in America.

A very scarce assemblage of four years the first academic journal dedicated to the study of Hebrew, Semitic studies in America. Not a single year on the market at present at any price. 

Harper, William R. [Managing Ed.], Paul Haupt and Hermann L. Strack [Associate Eds.]. Hebraica. A Quarterly Journal in the Interests of Semitic Study. Volume VI. October, 1889 - July, 1890. Hartford, Connecticut. 1889. 320pp.

Contents include:

The Pentateuchal Question by William R. Harper; On the Historical Results of Eduard Glaser's Explorations in South Arabia by Fitz Hammel; An Early Babylonian Inscription from Niffer by Theo. G. Pinches; The Kh. Collection of Babylonian Antiquities Belonging to the University of Pennsylvania by Robert Francis Harper; The Story of Arsanis by Isaac H. Hall; The Quiescents or Vowel-Letters in Ancient Hebrew Orthography by D. Chwolsom; The Particular in Hebrew by Alfred M. Wilson; On the Nabataean Inscriptions in the Sinaitic Peninsula by J. Euting; So-Called Kappadokian Cuneiform Tablets by A. H. Sayce; Some Later Babylonian Inscriptions by J. N. Strassmaker; The Destruction of Antiquities in the East by Alfred M. Wilson; The Origin of the Notae Relationis in Hebrew by Richard Kraetzschmar; A Classification of Sentences in the Sennacherib Inscription by Lester Bradner; Blessed be Abram of the Most High God by A. H. Sayce, etc. 

Good quarter leather, some rubbing, ex library remains. A few leaves pulled and tender at rear. 

Harper, William R. [Managing Ed.], Paul Haupt and Hermann L. Strack [Associate Eds.]. Hebraica. A Quarterly Journal in the Interests of Semitic Study. Volume VIII. October, 1891 - July, 1892. Hartford, Connecticut. 1892. 240pp.

Contents include:

The Order of the Sentence in the Assyrian Historical Inscriptions by Lester Bradner; The Pentateuchal Question by William Henry Green; Contributions to the History of Geography by Richard Gottheil; Chronology of the Account of the Flood - A Contribution to the History of the Jewish Calendar by Benjamin Wisner Bacon; The Use of Paseq in the Psalms by A. J. Maas; Psalms XXII by Frederick Kramer; New Names for the Forms of the Hebrew Finite Verb by F. P. Ramsey; An Unpublished Cylinder of Esarhaddon by S. Arthur Strong; The Calendar of Enoch and Jubilees; A Charm worth Reading by Isaac H. Hall; Old Persian Names in Babylonian Contracts by Theo. G. Pinches; The Views of Jehuda Halevi Concerning the Hebrew Language by W. Bacher; The Vowel-Points Controversy by B. Pick, etc.

Good quarter leather, some rubbing, ex library remains.

Harper, William R. [Managing Ed.], Paul Haupt and Hermann L. Strack [Associate Eds.]. Hebraica. A Quarterly Journal in the Interests of Semitic Study. Volume IX. October, 1892 - July, 1893. Hartford, Connecticut. 1893. 243pp.

Contents include:

A Letter to Assurbanipal by S. Arthur Strong; Inscription of Nebuchadnezzar Son of Nin-eb-nadin-sum by J. N. Strassmater; Comparative Study on the Translations of the Babylonian Creation Tablets with Special Reference to Jensen's Kosmologie and Barton's Tiamat by W. Muss-Arnolt; The Letters of Abdiheba by Morris Jastrow; History of the Printed Editions of the Old Testament Together with a Description of the Rabbinic and Polyglot Bibles by B. Pick; The Semitic Istar Cult by George A. Barton; The Syriac Versions of the Categories of Aristotle by Richard J. H. Gottheil; A Critical Copy of the Samaritan's Pentateuch Written in A.D. 1232 by W. Scott Watson; Das Hebraeische Neue Testament von Franz Delitzsch by Gustaf Dalman, etc.

Good quarter leather, some rubbing, ex library remains.

Harper, William R. [Managing Ed.], Paul Haupt and Hermann L. Strack [Associate Eds.]. Hebraica. A Quarterly Journal in the Interests of Semitic Study. Volume X. October, 1893 - July, 1894. Hartford, Connecticut. 1894. 236pp.

Contents include:

The Semitic Istar Cult by George A. Barton; Prayer of the Assyrian King Asurbanipal by James A Craig; The Relation of Leviticus XX to Leviticus XVII-XIX by Lewis B. Paton; A Critical Copy of the Samaritan Pentateuch by W. Scott Watson; The External Evidence of the Exodus by Nathaniel Schmidt; On the Hebrew Element in Slavo-Judaeo-German by Leo Wiener; Notes on Semitic Grammar by Maz L. Margolis; Musannitu by Morris Jastrow; Assyriological Notes by Robert Francis Harper, etc. 

Good quarter leather, some rubbing, ex library remains. A bit varied from the other bindings with different materials, more rubbing, and surface breach to front hinge.