The Younger (ed.) Trium Scriptorum Illustrium de Tribus Judaeorum Sectis Syntagma. In quo Nicolai Serarii, Johannis Drusii, Josephi Scaligeri, Opuscula [The Sects of the Jews]

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TRIGLAND, JACOB

The Younger (ed.) Trium Scriptorum Illustrium de Tribus Judaeorum Sectis Syntagma. In quo Nicolai Serarii, Johannis Drusii, Josephi Scaligeri, Opuscula [The Sects of the Jews]

FIRST EDITION of anthology. Part I (of two) only. Latin interspersed with Greek and Hebrew. pp.(24), 24, 496. Stained and wrinkled. Small hole in title, text unaffected. Contemporary limp vellum, buckled and stained. 4to

Delft: Adrian Beman 1703

Est: $300 - $500

Anthology of Works by Dutch Christian Hebraists on Second Temple Judaism. Contains Drusius' short work on the Hasidim in the Book of Maccabees; Serararius' lengthy study on the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes; Drusius' long work on the Jewish sects; followed by Scaliger's animadversions to Serarius. For an appraisal of the Hebraic learning of Johannes Drusius (1550-1616) and Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), see A.L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), pp. 31-35.