Lexicon et Commentarius Sermonis Hebraici et Chaldaici. [Dictionary of Hebrew and Aramaic]. With brief animadversions by Johannes Heinrich Mai

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COCCEIUS [COCH], JOHANNES

Lexicon et Commentarius Sermonis Hebraici et Chaldaici. [Dictionary of Hebrew and Aramaic]. With brief animadversions by Johannes Heinrich Mai

FIRST EDITION. Latin, German and Dutch texts interspersed with Hebrew and Aramaic. Title in red and black ff. (8); cols. 1040; ff. (31). Animadversions by Mai: cols. 44 (through letter Yod; lacking undetermined number of leaves at end). Light stains. Contemporary vellum, spine cracked. Folio Freimann, p. 88

Frankfurt a/Main: Balthasar Christophor Wust 1689

Est: $400 - $600

Johannes Cocceius [Coch] (1603-1669) served as Professor of Theology at Leiden, a position he held from 1650 until his death. Katchen credits him with being the first Dutch Hebraist who can truly be called a rabbinic scholar. His most outstanding achievement in this respect is his commentary on the Mishnah - Tractates Sanhedrin and Makoth, which excels in its philological analysis. Remarkably, the work is free of Christian polemics. For this reason, it was necessary, after Coch’s death, for his son to defend him against the charge that he had overindulged in “Jewish-talmudic exegesis.” See Aaron L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), pp. 65-75; EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 42