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Author:   Asaph Ben-Tov
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9789004466449

ISBN 10:   9004466444
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   16 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany 1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist 1 First Academic Appearances 2 Studying Oriental Languages 3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena 4 Commonplace Learning 2 Early Endeavours 1 His Father's Editor 2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus 3 History 4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism 5 The Syriac Bible 3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium 1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics 2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647) 3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia 4 Fata libelli 4 Travels in the Republic of Letters 1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg 2 Iter ad mare balticum - A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642) 3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650-1651) 5 Professor of History (1652-1655) 1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes 6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion 1 Professor of Theology 2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches 3 Armenia (1665) 4 The Muscovites (1665) 5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668) 6 Beyond Church History 7 Islam 8 Umbra in luce (1667) 9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621-1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens 10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra 11 Christian Hoffmann's Umbra in luce (1667) A Hieroglyphic Farewell and Concluding Comments Appendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina Collection Bibliography Index

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Asaph Ben-Tov, PhD (Jerusalem 2007), Habilitation (Erfurt 2019) is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and co-editor (with Yaacov Deutsch and Tamar Herzig) of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe (2013) and (with Martin Mulsow) of Knowledge and Profanation (2019).

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