Jewish Books and their Readers: Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: Manuscript, Print and the Jewish Bible

1: The Letter of Aristeas: Three Phases in the Readership of a Jewish Text

2: Antonio Brucioli and the Jewish Italian Versions of the Bible

Part 2: Censorship and the Regulation of Readers

3: Hebrew Books and Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy

4: Illustrious Rabbis Facing the Italian Inquisition: Accommodating Censorship in Seventeenth-Century Italy

Part 3: Jewish Texts in Christian Hands

5: Petrus Galatinus and Jean Thenaud on the Talmud and the Toledot Yeshu

6: Crossroads in Hebraism: Johann Buxtorf Gives a Hebrew Lesson to Philippe Duplessis-Mornay

7: ‘Pandects of the Jews’: A French, Swiss and Italian Prelude to John Selden

Part 4: Antiquarianism and the Expansion of Knowledge

8: Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Role of Hebrew in Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Italy

9: The Humanist Discovery of Hebrew Epistolography

10: Collecting Hebrew Epitaphs in the Early Modern Age: The Christian Hebraist as Antiquarian

Part 5: The Multiplicity of Texts and the Multiplicity of Readers

11: More Than One Way to Read a Midrash: The Bodleian Copy of Bomberg’s Midrash Rabbah

12: Spanish Readings of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Sephardim

Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index