‎GERHARD, JOHANN.‎
‎Commentarius super Deuteronomium in quo textus declaratur (...)‎

‎Jenae, Ludovici Neuenhanii, 1657. 4to. In contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremitiers, boards with scratches and spine slightly cracked. Internally very nice and clean. (22), 1634, (44) pp. + engraved half-title. ‎

Reference : 61079

‎Rare first edition of Gerhard’s publication of his farther’s commentary on the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Torah. “In his years as professor of theology Gerhard continued to publish his father’s work. This was in fact a central preoccupation for the rest of his life. Thus, Sengenwald published the extensive collection of Johann Gerhard’s disputations in the year of Gerhard’s theological appointment, and the year before, on the sixteenth anniversary of his father’s death (17 August 1654), Gerhard signed the dedicatory epistle to a revised edition of his father’s Genesis commentary. In 1657 he published his father’s commentary on Deuteronomy.” (Asaph Ben-Tov, Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World). Johann Gerhard was a German Lutheran theologian and prominent figure in the Lutheran tradition during the post-Reformation period. Gerhard served as a professor of theology at the University of Jena and later at the University of Helmstedt. ‎