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"I have always loved the holy tongue" : Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a forgotten chapter in Renaissance scholarship /

Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar's already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1550-1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grafton, Anthony
Otros Autores: Weinberg, Joanna, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rabbi Isaac Casaubon : a Hellenist meets the Jews
  • How Casaubon read Hebrew texts
  • Wider horizons in Hebraic studies
  • Casaubon and Baronio : early Christianity in a Jewish setting
  • The teller and the tale : what Casaubon learned from Jews
  • Appendices : 1. The long apprenticeship : Casaubon and Arabic / Alastair Hamilton
  • 2. Casaubon on the Masoretic text
  • 3. Casaubon's Hebrew and Judaic library.