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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burnett, Stephen G.

Series:

Library of the written word ; 19.

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 13.

Library of the written word, 1874-4834 ; v. 19

The handpress world ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian Hebraists--Europe--History--16th century.

Christian Hebraists.

Christian Hebraists--Europe--History--17th century.

Christian Hebraists--Europe--16th century--Biography.

Christian Hebraists--Europe--17th century--Biography.

Jewish learning and scholarship--Europe--History--16th century.

Jewish learning and scholarship.

Jewish learning and scholarship--Europe--History--17th century.

Christianity and other religions--Relations--Judaism--History--16th century.

Christianity and other religions.

Christianity and other religions--Relations--Judaism--History--17th century.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--16th century.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-42630-7

9786613426307

90-04-22249-9

OCLC:

773566740

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004222496 DOI