“I have always loved the Holy Tongue” : : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship / / Joanna Weinberg, Anthony Grafton.
Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) was one of Europe’s greatest Protestant scholars during the late Renaissance and was renowned for his expert knowledge of the early history of the church. Today, however, most of Casaubon’s books remain unread, and much of his vast archive remains unexplored. Grafton and W...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carl Newell Jackson Lectures
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note to Readers
- 1. Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the
- 2. How Casaubon Read Hebrew Texts
- 3. Wider Horizons in Hebraic Studies
- 4. Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish Setting
- 5. The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from
- Appendix 1, The Long Apprenticeship: Casaubon and Arabic
- Appendix 2. Casaubon on the Masoretic Text
- Appendix 3. Casaubon’s Hebrew and Judaic Library
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index