Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660)

Authors, Books, and the Transmission of Jewish Learning
Approx. 483 Pp. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22248-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 758 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnett, Stephen G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

Maps

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

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Burnett, Stephen G
Stephen G. Burnett, Ph.D (1990), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has published extensively on Christian Hebraism and Jewish printing.