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

COCCEIUS [COCH], JOHANNES

Balthasar Christophor Wust

Frankfurt a/Main

1689

FIRST EDITION. Latin, German and Dutch texts interspersed with Hebrew and Aramaic. Title in red and black

Freimann, p. 88

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