Christian Hebraism in the Reformation era (1500-1660) : authors, books, and the transmission of Jewish learning
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Christian Hebraism in the Reformation era (1500-1660) : authors, books, and the transmission of Jewish learning
（Library of the written word, v. 19 . The handpress world ; v. 13）
Brill, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-330) and index
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Description
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
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Birth of a Christian Hebrew Reading Public
Chapter 2: Hebraist Authors and their Supporters: Centers, Peripheries,
and the Growth of an Academic Hebrew Culture
Chapter 3: Hebraist Authors and the Mediation of Jewish Scholarship
Chapter 4: Judaica Libraries: Imagined and Real
Chapter 5: The Christian Hebrew Book Market: Printers and
Booksellers
Chapter 6: Press Controls and the Hebraist Discourse in
Reformation Europe
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Christian Hebrew Authors, 1501-1660
Appendix 2: Christian Hebrew Printers and Publishers, 1501-1660
Appendix 3: Christian Hebrew Book Production: Typesetting and Type
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