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Synagogue Judaica
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This is the frontispiece of a 1661 edition of Synagoga Judaica, a study of the customs and culture of German Jewry by Christian Hebraist, and polemical critic of Judaism, Johannes Buxtorf the Elder…

Contributor:

Johannes Buxtorf

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1661

Subjects:

Print, Christian-Jewish relations, Education, Circumcision, Jewish languages

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page with Latin text in the center, surrounded by two images, the top of people sitting in front of a teacher and board with Hebrew letters on it, and the bottom of men sitting around a baby.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of Jossipon
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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…

Contributor:

Sebastian Münster

Places:

Basel, Switzerland

Date:

1541

Subjects:

Print, Scholarship, Translation, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture
Printed page of Latin text.