Christian Hebraism in the Reformation era (1500-1660) : authors, books, and the transmission of Jewish learning / / By Stephen G. Burnett.

• Superior document: Library of the written word, v. 19
• Author: Burnett, Stephen G.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Library of the written word ; 19.; Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Christian Hebraism in early modern Europe has traditionally been interpreted as the pursuit of a few exceptional scholars, but in the sixteenth century it became an intellectual movement involving hundreds of authors and printers and thousands of readers. The Reformation transformed Christian Hebrew scholarship into an academic discipline, supported by both Catholics and Protestants. This book places Christian Hebraism in a larger context by discussing authors and their books as mediators of Jewish learning, printers and booksellers as its transmitters, and the impact of press controls in shaping the public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts. Both Jews and Jewish converts played an important role in creating this new and unprecedented form of Jewish learning.

Table of Contents

Birth of a Christian Hebrew reading public -- Hebraist authors and their supporters: centers, peripheries, and the growth of an academic Hebrew culture -- Hebraist authors and the mediation of Jewish scholarship -- Judaica libraries: imagined and real -- The Christian Hebrew book market: printers and booksellers -- Press controls and the Hebraist discourse in Reformation Europe.