ISBN:
9789004473553
,
9789004103467
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
1996
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 68
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth Century
Keywords:
Christian Hebraists Biography
;
Christian Hebraists
Abstract:
This book examines how Johannes Buxtorf's works helped to transform seventeenth-century Hebrew studies from the hobby of a few experts into a recognized academic discipline. The first two chapters examine Buxtorf's career as a professor of Hebrew and as an editor and censor of Jewish books in Basel. Successive chapters analyze his anti-Jewish polemical books, grammars and lexicons, and manuals for Hebrew composition and literature, including the first bibliography devoted to Jewish books. The final chapters treat his work in biblical studies, examining his contribution to Targum and Massorah studies, and his position on the age and doctrinal authority of the Hebrew vowel points. The chapters on anti-Jewish polemics and the vowel points will interest Jewish historians and Church historians
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material /
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Acknowledgments /
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Abbreviations /
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Introduction /
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Chapter One The Career Path of a Christian Hebraist /
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Chapter Two Censorship and the Hebrew Book Trade /
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Chapter Three Theological Polemics and Buxtorf's Ethnography of the Jews /
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Chapter Four The Development of Hebrew Grammar and Lexicography /
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Chapter Five Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in the Confessional Academy /
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Chapter Six A Hebrew Textus Receptus: Buxtorf and the Text of the Hebrew Bible /
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Chapter Seven Tiberias and the Vowel Point Controversy /
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Conclusion /
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Appendix One Short Title List of Buxtorf Imprints /
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Appendix Two Correspondence of Johannes Buxtorf /
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Appendix Three Yiddish Booklist of 1609 /
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Appendix Four Buxtorf Family Library in 1613: Hebrew Title List /
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Bibliography /
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Index of Names and Places /
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Subject Index /
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Studies in the History of Christian Thought /
DOI:
10.1163/9789004473553
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