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This book examines how Johannes Buxtorf's works helped to transform seventeenth-century Hebrew studies from the hobby of a few experts into a recognized academic discipline. The first two chapters examine Buxtorf's career as a professor of Hebrew and as an editor and censor of Jewish books in Basel. Successive chapters analyze his anti-Jewish polemical books, grammars and lexicons, and manuals for Hebrew composition and literature, including the first bibliography devoted to Jewish books. The final chapters treat his work in biblical studies, examining his contribution to Targum and Massorah studies, and his position on the age and doctrinal authority of the Hebrew vowel points. The chapters on anti-Jewish polemics and the vowel points will interest Jewish historians and Church historians.

Christian Hebraists --- Hebrew language --- Hébraïsants chrétiens --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Biography --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- History --- Biographies --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Buxtorf, Johann, --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Hebraists, Christian --- Biography. --- 809.24-07 --- -Hebrew language --- -Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Hebraists --- Hebreeuws: taalonderwijs; taalverwerving --- -History --- -Languages --- Buxtorf, Johann --- -Hebreeuws: taalonderwijs; taalverwerving --- -Buxtorf, Johann --- 809.24-07 Hebreeuws: taalonderwijs; taalverwerving --- -809.24-07 Hebreeuws: taalonderwijs; taalverwerving --- Jewish language --- Hébraïsants chrétiens --- Hébreu (Langue) --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Languages --- Buxtorff, Johannes, --- Buxtorfius, Joannes, --- בוקסטורף, יוהן, --- בוקשדורף, יוחנן, --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Hebraists [Christian ] --- Switzerland --- 17th century --- Bible. Old Testament --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Buxtorf, Johann, - 1564-1629. --- Hebraists, Christian - Switzerland - Biography. --- Hebrew language - Study and teaching (Higher) - History - 17th century.