Dissertationes Historicae : I. De creatione mundi, II. De situ Edenis, et horti, quem Deus ipse ea in regione plantavit, III. De lingua primaeva, eiusque propagatione, atque inde natis variis ac multiplicibus dialectis…

HONERT, TACO HAJO VAN DEN.

Abraham Kallewier

Leiden

1738

FIRST EDITION. Latin with occasional Greek and Hebrew. Large, folded map of the World. Title page printed in red and black. Printed on thick paper. The Baron de Warenghien copy.

Dutch theologian T.H. Honert (1666-1740) was a professor of theology and Hebrew antiquities at the University of Leiden. This comprehensive and critical study on the Book of Genesis, is comprised of three sections: The creation of the world - follows the Hebrew narrative of Genesis’s Seven Days of Creation, phrase by phrase, with explanation and commentary in Latin. Second: A discussion of the Garden of Eden and its four rivers: Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, Euphrates and includes the foldout map by F. V. Bleyswyk, centered around Canaan. Third: The origin of languages of the first centuries, and its propagation into various and complex dialects; includes Hebrew root words.