Reviews for New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle

The average rating for New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-05 00:00:00 Corey Seidl I'm not real sure how to review this book. It is a series of translations, with commentary of a number of Medieval Jewish poems. Some of the poems are brilliant. Some of them are merely good. It isn't, however, a book I would necessarily recommend...I enjoyed it, but I know Hebrew. The reader without Hebrew has to read it mediated through Scheindlin's translations. He's a good scholar, but I didn't always agree with his choices. Thus the three stars. In its genre, it deserves far more. In my own unimportant subjective opinion, it gets three.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-08-01 00:00:00 Lukasz Gzella Follow Just A Girl High on Books for more reviews. So I read this book as part of a coursework and well, it was a pretty decent read. Pros: - the book showed its arguments very clearly. I didn't have to search the entire book to find out what the author is exactly saying. - the arguments were always substantiated with evidence so even if I hadn't read the Greek plays, I would understand what she is trying to say. Cons: - Well, the arguments were always substantiated with evidences from the Greek plays, and eh, no one has read ALL of them to understand every single thing, right? Things didn't make sense because of this at some points. Verdict: Pretty decent read. Can't judge it much but yeah, it was good.