Language:
English
Pages:
144 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2014
Series Statement:
Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies 10
Series Statement:
Menasseh ben Israel Instituut studies
Keywords:
Leusden, Johannes
;
ʿAtiyyā, Shelomoh Ben-Shēm Ṭǒv
;
Masoretischer Text
;
Buchdruck
;
Tanach
;
Provenienz: Voolen, Edward van Donator
Abstract:
In 1667, at the height of the Dutch Golden Age, a groundbreaking Hebrew Bible was published in Amsterdam. It was edited by a Dutch Calvinist professor in collaboration with Jewish scholars and printed by a Sephardi exile shortly after his father was burned in an auto-da-fé in Spain. This Biblia Hebraica Accuratissima epitomized the kind of encounter across the frontiers of faith for which Early Modern Amsterdam has long been famous. For the first time, a Bible carried the approbations of both Jewish and Christian religious authorities, a remarkable accomplishment for an age of fierce confessional polemic centered on the proper interpretation of Scripture. Its success is in part due to the remarkable confluence of Christian and Jewish anxieties about the accuracy of the sacred text in the decade between the excommunication of Spinoza and the apostasy of the Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
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