Ein Meilenstein der Hebraistik

Der Sefer ha-Bachur Elia Levitas in Sebastian Munsters Ubersetzung und Edition

by Melanie Lange

Book cover: Ein Meilenstein der Hebraistik

Extent: 440 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte

Series volume number: 62

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2018)

ISBN: 9783374056811

Price: $111.00

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The humanistic endeavor to reach ad fontes encouraged Sebastian Munster to promote the learning of the Hebrew language. As a Christian Hebrew scholar of the first generation, he translates a Jewish Hebrew grammar into Latin and enters an intercultural and interreligious dialogue with the author of his linguistic template, the Jewish philologist Elia Levita. An intensive correspondence between both is documented, but unfortunately not preserved, except for one document. So only Levitas work remains to examine the scientific discourse between them. Munster translated it, thus making it accessible for the Christian scholarly world of the Reformation and Renaissance humanism era.

  • By (author) Melanie Lange