Creator Bio
Willem Surenhuys
1666–1729
Willem Surenhuys was a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew who translated the Mishnah into Latin between 1698 and 1703. The son of a German-born minister, he studied at the University of Groningen and later taught in Amsterdam.
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Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…