Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah

Willem Surenhuys

1698

Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
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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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