BOOK: Piet VAN BOXEL, Kristen MACFARLANE & Joanna WEINBERG (eds.), The Mishaic Moment. Jewish Law among Jews and Christiand and Early Modern Europe [Oxford-Warburg Studies] (Oxford: OUP, 2022), 432 p., IBSN 9780192898906

 

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Table of contents:

Introduction: The Mishnah between Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe, Piet van Boxel, Joanna Weinberg, and Kirsten Macfarlane
Prelude
Humanism and the Mishnah: Paulus Fagius Edits Avot, Anthony Grafton
Some Concepts of Mishnah among 16th-Century Safedian Kabbalists, Moshe Idel
Translation and Pedagogy
The First Complete Latin translation of the Mishnah (1663-1676): Isaac Abendana and Rabbinic Erudition in Restoration England, Theodor Dunkelgrün
Isaac Abendana's German Student Theodor Dassow, the Latin translation of the Mishnah and the conversion of the Jews, Guido Bartolucci
'El sabio Jacob Abendana' and the Spanish Translation of the Mishnah, Yosef Kaplan
Commentary and Scholarship
Bringing Maimonides to Oxford: Edward Pococke, the Mishnah, and the Porta Mosis, Benjamin Williams
William Guise: the application of Arabic to the interpretation of Mishnah Zera'im, Alastair Hamilton
'Ancient Rabbis Inspired by God': Robert Sheringham's Surprising Edition of Mishnah Tractate Yoma (1648), Thomas Roebuck
Johann Christoph Wagenseil: From Scholar to Missionary, Piet van Boxel
Communities and Curricula
Between Law and Antiquarianism: The Christian Study of Maimonides's Mishneh Torah in Late Seventeenth-Century Europe, Marcello Cattaneo
The Significance of Historical Judaism and the Career of Humphrey Prideaux, Scott Mandelbrote
Cultivating Education and Piety: Menasseh ben Israel, Lay Readership, and the Printing of the Mishnah in the Seventeenth Century, David Sclar
Guilielmus Surenhusius (1664-1729)
The role of Jewish commentaries in Christian interpretation of the Mishnah in 17th century Northern Europe, Joanna Weinberg
Imagining Visually the Mishnah - From Wagenseil to Surenhuis (1674-1703), Richard Cohen
'To the advantage of the Republic of Letters'? Guilielmus Surenhusius's Projects, Plans, and Collaborations Beyond the Mishnah, Dirk van Miert
Christianity as Jewish Allegory? Guilielmus Surenhusius, Rabbinic Hermeneutics and the Reformed Study of the New Testament in the Early Eighteenth Century, Kirsten Macfarlan

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