Schoole der Jooden, Begrypende het gehele Joodsche Geloof [The Synagogue of the Jews, Containing the Entire Jewish Belief]
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 71
BUXTORF, JOHANNES (THE ELDER)
Schoole der Jooden, Begrypende het gehele Joodsche Geloof [The Synagogue of the Jews, Containing the Entire Jewish Belief]
Leiden: Daniel van den Dalen & Hendrik van Damme 1702
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
“Buxtorf’s study provides a detailed, and in general dispassionate description of Jewish rituals and traditions…Buxtorf’s stated scorn for the empty rituals of Jewish life is difficult to reconcile with the meticulous and respectful explanation he gives of the theological significance of almost every aspect of Jewish practice.”Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment (2003), p. 28.
See further Stephen G. Burnett, From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth Century (1996)