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 exam
Burnett (religious studies, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) continues his studies into the close connection between the Reformation and the study of Hebrew by Christians. At the beginning of the 16th century,
Scholars of history and religion examine how the Christian Reformation affected Jews in Germany, which was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. They consider the road to reformatio
Jews had no horse in the Reformation, and so in theory should not have had any effect on or been affected by the conflict within Christianity. European and North American scholars of Judaism, religion
