Christian Hebraism in a Contemporary Key
The Search for Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5349197 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Malkiel (0000-0003-3952-3645, corresponding author), David Joshua Malkiel |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 123-146 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Jewish Quarterly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-6682 • E-ISSN: 1553-0604 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jqr.2005.0097 |
| OpenAlex | W2030015340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
In 1682 three scholars conducted a coordinated effort to obtain the texts of Hebrew tombstone inscriptions from Jewish cemeteries in northern Italy: Bernardino Ramazzini, a professor of medicine at the University of Padua, Antonio Magliabechi of Florence, librarian to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Johann Christoph Wagenseil, a well-known Christian Hebraist from Altdorf, Germany. This article tells the story of their campaign, based on letters exchanged between the three participants. It fleshes out items mentioned in the correspondence and explores the significance of the affair for the history of European and European-Jewish culture in the early modern era. Among the issues illuminated are messianism, Jewish-Christian relations and Christian Hebraism
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epitaph · Hebrew · Judaism · Literature · Messianism · Poetry · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |