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

COCCEIUS, JOHANNES

Frankfurt and Leipzig

1714

Second edition. Title in red and black. On title, fanciful depiction of Solomon's Temple. Latin, German and Dutch texts interspersed with Hebrew and Aramaic.

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 Mishnaic Tractates Sanhedrin and Makoth, which excels in its philological analysis and is remarkably free of Christian polemic. 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 A. L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984), pp. 65-75; EJ, Vol. VIII, col. 42