Jewish books and their readers : : aspects of the intellectual life of Christians and Jews in early modern Europe / / edited by Scott Mandelbrote, Joanna Weinberg.

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Church History and Religious Culture, Volume 75
• TeilnehmendeR: Mandelbrote, Scott; Weinberg, Joanna
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; Volume 75
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Letter of Aristeas: Three Phases in the Readership of a Jewish Text /; Antonio Brucioli and the Jewish Italian Versions of the Bible /; Hebrew Books and Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy /; Illustrious Rabbis Facing the Italian Inquisition: Accommodating Censorship in Seventeenth-Century Italy /; Petrus Galatinus and Jean Thenaud on the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu /; Crossroads in Hebraism: Johann Buxtorf Gives a Hebrew Lesson to Philippe Duplessis-Mornay /; ‘Pandects of the Jews’: A French, Swiss and Italian Prelude to John Selden /; Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Role of Hebrew in Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Italy /; The Humanist Discovery of Hebrew Epistolography /; Collecting Hebrew Epitaphs in the Early Modern Age: The Christian Hebraist as Antiquarian /; More Than One Way to Read a Midrash: The Bodleian Copy of Bomberg’s Midrash Rabbah /; Spanish Readings of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Sephardim /; Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004318151
• ISSN: 1572-4107
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Scott Mandelbrote, Joanna Weinberg.

Jewish Books and their Readers discusses the transformative effect of the circulation and readership of sacred and secular texts written by Jews on Christian as well as Jewish readers in early modern Europe. Its twelve essays challenge traditional paradigms of Christian Hebraism and undermine simplistic visions of the unchanging nature of Jewish cultural life.They ask what constituted a ‘Jewish’ book: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within both Jewish and Christian environments (and how its meanings were contested), and what effect such understanding had on contemporary views of Jews and their intellectual heritage. They demonstrate how the involvement of Christians in the production and dissemination of Jewish books played a role in the shaping of the intellectual life of Jews and Christians. Contributors are: Michela Andreatta, Andrew Berns, Theodor Dunkelgrün, Federica Francesconi, Anthony Grafton Alessandro Guetta, William Horbury, Yosef Kaplan, Scott Mandelbrote, Piet van Boxel, Joanna Weinberg Benjamin Williams.