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“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”

Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship

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ISBN 9780674048409

Publication Date: 01/03/2011

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392 pages

6-7/8 x 10 inches

43 halftones

Belknap Press

Carl Newell Jackson Lectures

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  • List of Illustrations
  • A Note to Readers
  • 1. Rabbi Isaac Casaubon: A Hellenist Meets the Jews
  • 2. How Casaubon Read Hebrew Texts
  • 3. Wider Horizons in Hebraic Studies
  • 4. Casaubon and Baronio: Early Christianity in a Jewish Setting
  • 5. The Teller and the Tale: What Casaubon Learned from Jews
  • Appendix 1: The Long Apprenticeship: Casaubon and Arabic [Alastair Hamilton]
  • Appendix 2: Casaubon on the Masoretic Text
  • Appendix 3: Casaubon’s Hebrew and Judaic Library
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards & Accolades

  • A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011

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