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Unusual and physically attractive Latin-Hebrew book on the category of halakhah dealing with ma’aser and related subjects by two prominent Christian-Hebraists, Johann Conrad Hottinger and Adrian Reland. The book opens with a beautiful full page a large center piece copperplate of Jews standing about in front of a large building (synagogue) and five smaller vignettes of the alter, and other scenes related to ma’aser. The tile page follows in red and black letters also with a vignette at the bottom of the page. The verso of the title page has a lisitng of the books ten chapters and the following front matter includes a dedication and introductory lectures by the authors. The text, although in Latin includes considerable Hebrew. Commentarius Philologicus De Decimis Judaeorum concludes with several indexes.
Johann Conrad Hottinger (17-18th cent.) was a Protestant theologian, belonging to the famed family of that name. Adrian Reland (1676-1718) was a Dutch orientalist and theologian, born at Ryp, near Alkmaar, Holland. Reland studied at Utrecht, was appointed professor of philosophy at Harderwijk in 1699, and professor of oriental languages and antiquities at Utrecht in 1701. Reland's publications were: "Analecta Rabbinica" (Utrecht, 1702); "Disserlationes Quinque de Nummis Veterum Hebræorum" (ib. 1709); and an introduction to Alting's Hebrew grammar, together with an edition of the Book of Ruth with a rabbinical commentary (ib. 1710). In his miscellaneous collection of dissertations he dealt with many topics of interest, as the Samaritans, Persian words in the Talmud, etc. His chief works of Jewish interest, however, were his "Antiquitates Sacræ Veterum Hebræorum" (ib. 1708), which went through no less than five editions, and his "Palæstina ex Monumentis Veteribus Illustrata," which was published in 1714 at Utrecht,with eleven maps, and at Nuremberg in 1716. Both these works were for a long time the standard authorities on their respective subjects.
Title: Seu commentarius philologicus de decimis judaeorum. Decem exercitationibus absolutus. In quo omnia, quæ ad hanc materiam illustrandam pertinent, tum è sacris literis, tum ipsis judaeorum veterum monumentis explicantur, variaque alia sacrarum antiquitatum themata ex occasione tractantur. Auctore Joh. Conr. Hottingero.
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