Schoole der Jooden, Begrypende het gehele Joodsche Geloof [The Synagogue of the Jews, Containing the Entire Jewish Belief]

BUXTORF, JOHANNES (THE ELDER)

Daniel van den Dalen & Hendrik van Damme

Leiden

1702

Dutch text. Allegorical engraved frontispiece and four fold-out copper plates by Jan Luyken: Ceremony of Reading the Law; the Passover Seder; the Feast of Booths; and the Marriage Ceremony. A crisp, clean copy

“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)