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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grafton, Anthony
Other Authors: Weinberg, Joanna, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Casaubon, Isaac, > 1559-1614.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > 16th century.
Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > 17th century.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc. > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Bible > Critique, interprétation, etc > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Bible.
1500-1699
Old Testament scholars > Biography.
Christian Hebraists > Biography.
Exégètes de l'Ancien Testament > Biographies.
Hébraïsants chrétiens > Biographies.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Christian Hebraists.
Old Testament scholars.
Biography
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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