The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

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The Mishnaic Moment: Jewish Law among Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
Copyright
Preface
Abbreviations and a Note on Transliteration
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
INTRODUCTION
	1: The Mishnah between Jews and Christians in Early Modern Europe
		The Early Modern Mishnah
		The Latin Mishnah: Guilielmus Surenhusius and the Christian Tradition of Mishnah Scholarship
		Afterlives: Surenhusius after the Mishnah and the Mishnah after Surenhusius
PRELUDE
	2: Humanism and the Mishnah: Paul Fagius Edits Avot
	3: Some Concepts of Mishnah among Sixteenth-CenturySafedian Kabbalists
		The Hypostatic Mishnah in Safed and its Sources
		Worshipping the hypostatic Mishnah
		The Mishnah as a Mystical Technique: Joseph Karo and Hayyim Vital
		Forms of Mystical Union with the Mishnah in Karo’s diary
		Vital and the Tannaim
		Visiting Tannaitic tombs
		Some concluding remarks
TRANSLATION AND PEDAGOGY
	4: The First Complete Latin Translation of the Mishnah (1663–1676): Isaac Abendana and Rabbinic Erudition in Restoration England
	5: Translating the Mishnah and the Conversion of the Jews: The Case of Isaac Abendana’s student Theodor Dassow
		Theodor Dassow: his Life and Works
		Isaac Abendana, Theodor Dassow and the Translation of the Mishnah
		Dassow, Rabbinic Literature and the Conversion of the Jews
		Conclusion
	6: ‘El Sabio Jacob Abendana’ and the Spanish Translation of the Mishnah
		The Early Modern Sephardim in Western Europe
		Two translators from Hebrew into Spanish: Rabbi Jacob Judah Leon and Rabbi Jacob Abendana
		Two Spanish translations of the Mishnah
		Traces of Jacob Abendana’s Biography
		Jacob Abendana and the Hebrew Book Trade
		The Argument with Antonius Hulsius
		The Spanish Translation of Judah Halevi’s Kuzari
		Haham of the Sephardi Community of London
		APPENDIX
			Traces of the Spanish Translation of the Mishnah by Jacob Abendana
COMMENTARY AND SCHOLARSHIP
	7: Bringing Maimonides to Oxford: Edward Pococke, the Mishnah, and the Porta Mosis
	8: William Guise: The Application of Arabic to the Interpretation of Mishnah Zeraʽim
	9: ‘Ancient Rabbis Inspired by God’: Robert Sheringham’s Surprising Edition of Mishnah Tractate Yoma (1648)
		The Oral Law and the Written Law: Sheringham Defends Mishnaic Study
		Interpreting the Mishnah: Sheringham’s Commentary on Yoma
		Conclusions
	10: Johann Christoph Wagenseil: From Scholar to Missionary
		Sotah
		Sotah and the Gospel of John
		Tela ignea
		Negaʻim
		Yevamot
		Conclusion
COMMUNITIES AND CURRICULA
	11: Between Law and Antiquarianism: The Christian Study of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah in Late Seventeenth-CenturyEurope
	12: The Significance of Historical Judaism and the Career of Humphrey Prideaux
	13: Cultivating Education and Piety: Menasseh ben Israel, Lay Readership, and the Printing of the Mishnah in the Seventeenth Century
		1632: Audience
		1632: Intention
		1643: Trends
		1646: Breadth
		Menasseh and the Mishnah
GUILIELMUS SURENHUSIUS (c. 1664–1729)
	14: The Role of Jewish Commentaries in Christian Interpretation of the Mishnah in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
		Johannes Wulferus, the Mishnah and the Jewish-ChristianEncounter
		The Tosafot Yom Tov in Christian hands
	15: Imagining Visually: Surenhusius’s Mishnah
		Conclusions
	16: ‘To the advantage of the Republic of Letters’?: Guilielmus Surenhusius’s Projects, Plans, and Collaborations Beyond the Mishnah
		Surenhusius’s Involvement in the Edition of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah (1702)
		Mussaphia’s Lost Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud
		The Lost Latin Translation of the Babylonian Talmud by Balthasar Scheidt
			Breithaupt’s Latin Translation of Rashi
			Conclusions
	17: Christianity as Jewish Allegory?: Guilielmus Surenhusius, Rabbinic Hermeneutics, and the Reformed Study of the New Testament in the Early Eighteenth Century
		A Potted History of a Problem
		Old Sources, New Ideas: Surenhusius and the Sefer ha-Mashveh (1713)
		Conclusion: Reformed Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Index I: Index of Mishnaic, Talmudic, and Biblical Passages
Index II: General Index