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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg -- Introduction / Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg -- The Letter of Aristeas: Three Phases in the Readership of a Jewish Text / Scott Mandelbrote -- Antonio Brucioli and the Jewish Italian Versions of the Bible / Alessandro Guetta -- Hebrew Books and Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Piet van Boxel -- Illustrious Rabbis Facing the Italian Inquisition: Accommodating Censorship in Seventeenth-Century Italy / Federica Francesconi -- Petrus Galatinus and Jean Thenaud on the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu / William Horbury -- Crossroads in Hebraism: Johann Buxtorf Gives a Hebrew Lesson to Philippe Duplessis-Mornay / Joanna Weinberg -- ‘Pandects of the Jews’: A French, Swiss and Italian Prelude to John Selden / Anthony Grafton -- Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Role of Hebrew in Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Italy / Andrew D. Berns -- The Humanist Discovery of Hebrew Epistolography / Theodor Dunkelgrün -- Collecting Hebrew Epitaphs in the Early Modern Age: The Christian Hebraist as Antiquarian / Michela Andreatta -- More Than One Way to Read a Midrash: The Bodleian Copy of Bomberg’s Midrash Rabbah / Benjamin Williams -- Spanish Readings of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Sephardim / Yosef Kaplan -- Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources / Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg -- Index / Scott Mandelbrote and Joanna Weinberg.