De Spoliis Templi Hierosolymitani in Arcu Titiano Romae conspicuis [“The Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple conspicuous in the Arch of Titus, Rome”].

RELAND, HADRIAN.

Guilielmi Broedelet

Utrecht

1716

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with Greek and Hebrew. Several foldout engravings of Temple vessels and appurtenances.

Dutch Orientalist Hadrian Reland (1676-1718) was Professor of Oriental Languages and Antiquities at Utrecht. Reland here drew upon a vast array of classical authors, Talmudic literature and church historians, which he quotes in the original. Reland’s study examines in great scholarly detail the various vessels purportedly despoiled from the Second Temple in Jerusalem which are displayed on the Arch of Titus in Rome. Reland was the first scholar to point out the discrepancy between the Menorah on the Arch of Titus and the Menorah of Biblical and Rabbinic tradition.