AZARIAH DE' ROSSI OBSERVATIONS ON THE SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT A Sixteenth-Century Jew's Critique of the Vulgate

AZARIAH DE' ROSSI OBSERVATIONS ON THE SYRIAC NEW TESTAMENT A Sixteenth-Century Jew's Critique of the Vulgate Edited by Joanna Weinberg 2005 ISBN: 0854811338 £ 150,00 Shortly before his death in 1577, the Mantuan Jewish scholar Azariah de? Rossi wrote a challenging and provocative treatise in Italian. Addressing a Christian readership at a time when the authenticity and authority of the Vulgate had been called into question, de? Rossi presented critical readings of specific verses and phrases in the New Testament, particularly the Aramaisms, clarifying and emending the Vulgate on the basis of the ancient Syriac version which had recently been printed (Vienna, 1555). Few Western scholars had any familiarity with Syriac; this learned Jew?s contribution to New Testament studies thus appears all the more remarkable. De? Rossi?s work was commissioned by Giacomo Boncompagni, the son of Pope Gregory XIII, and dedicated to the cardinal Santa Severina, Giulio Antonio Sanotoro. L'Opera The outstanding figure in the history of Jewish scholarship, Azariah de? Rossi (1511-1577), gained his reputation among both Christians and Jews for his Hebrew work, the Light of the Eyes, which was first printed in Mantua in 1573. Yet he was also the author of a short but original and daring Italian treatise on the Syriac version of the New Testament. This work lay in manuscript, unheeded by scholars, for centuries. The late Dayyan Alfredo Ravenna found the reference to the autograph manuscript in the Narducci catalogue of the Angelica Library in Rome; he was the first scholar to appreciate the importance of the text. Many years have elapsed since that initial discovery; in the meantime, another autograph of the same text came to light in the Vatican Library. This edition presents both the Italian text and the translation into English as well as annotations by Johanna Weinberg. Codice della Libreria 010089 - Language : english text