Creator Bio
Sebastian Münster
1488–1552
Sebastian Münster was a German Christian Hebraist, born in Mainz, who taught as a professor at the University of Basel. He was also a prominent cartographer and cosmographer, whose world map, Cosmographia was printed in 24 editions after its first publication in 1544.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Latin-Hebrew Edition of Jossipon
The supposed author of Josippon (an account of Jewish history from the Garden of Eden to the destruction of the Second Temple) was Josephus Flavius, though it is now generally believed that the book…