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The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.
List of contents
- Introduction: The Mishnah between Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
- Prelude
- Humanism and the Mishnah: Paulus Fagius Edits Avot
- Some Concepts of Mishnah among 16th-Century Safedian Kabbalists
- Translation and Pedagogy
- The First Complete Latin translation of the Mishnah (1663-1676): Isaac Abendana and Rabbinic Erudition in Restoration England
- Isaac Abendana's German Student Theodor Dassow, the Latin translation of the Mishnah and the conversion of the Jews
- 'El sabio Jacob Abendana' and the Spanish Translation of the Mishnah
- Commentary and Scholarship
- Bringing Maimonides to Oxford: Edward Pococke, the Mishnah, and the Porta Mosis
- William Guise: the application of Arabic to the interpretation of Mishnah Zera'im
- 'Ancient Rabbis Inspired by God': Robert Sheringham's Surprising Edition of Mishnah Tractate Yoma (1648)
- Johann Christoph Wagenseil: From Scholar to Missionary
- Communities and Curricula
- Between Law and Antiquarianism: The Christian Study of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah in Late Seventeenth-Century Europe
- The Significance of Historical Judaism and the Career of Humphrey Prideaux
- Cultivating Education and Piety: Menasseh ben Israel, Lay Readership, and the Printing of the Mishnah in the Seventeenth Century
- Guilielmus Surenhusius (1664-1729)
- The role of Jewish commentaries in Christian interpretation of the Mishnah in 17th century Northern Europe
- Imagining Visually the Mishnah - From Wagenseil to Surenhuis (1674-1703)
- 'To the advantage of the Republic of Letters'? Guilielmus Surenhusius's Projects, Plans, and Collaborations Beyond the Mishnah
- Christianity as Jewish Allegory? Guilielmus Surenhusius, Rabbinic Hermeneutics and the Reformed Study of the New Testament in the Early Eighteenth Century
About the author
Piet van Boxel was Fellow librarian of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Curator of Hebraica at the Bodleian Libraries. He is Honorary Fellow of the Bodleian Centre for the History of the Book.
Kirsten Macfarlane is Associate Professor of Early Modern Christianities at the University of Oxford and an Official Fellow and Tutor at Keble College. Before this, she was a Title A Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University, and completed her BA (2012), MSt (2014), and DPhil (2017) at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She has held visiting fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Houghton Library, Harvard, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Joanna Weinberg was Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford and Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She is Hebrew lecturer at Exeter College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of the Bodleian Centre for the History of the Book.
Summary
The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.
Additional text
An important piece of shared Intellectual history is found between the bindings of this fascinating book.
