Paul Eber (M / Germany, 1511-1569), scholar

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Portrait of Paul Eber

Paul Eber (M / Germany, 1511-1569) was a scholar, Christian Hebraist and theologian, professor of Old Testament at Wittenberg, and the author of the first scholarly history of the Second Temple period in modern times, following the model of Josephus.

Works

Books

  • Contexta populi Iudaici historia, a reditu ex Babylonico exilio, usqu'ad ultimum excidium Hierosolymae (Wittenberg [Germany]: Creutzer, 1548) <Latin>; 2nd ed.: Brevis historia populi Iudaici, a reditu ex Babylonico exilio, usque ad ultimum excidium Ierosolymae (1560).

Contexta populi Iudaici historia (1548)

Paul Eber's Uninterrupted History of the Jewish People, from the Return from the Babylonian Exile, to the Final Destruction of Jerusalem was the first history of the Second Temple period in modern times, following the model of Josephus.

Translations

French ed. : L'estat de la religion et republique du peuple iudaique depuis le retour de l'exil de Babylone iusques au dernier saccagement de Ierusalem (Paris, France: Iean Crespin, 1563).

"Histoire tres-utile & necessaire por l'intelligence de plusieurs passages tant du vieil que du nouveau Testament: traduit de Latin en François." Translated from the Latin.

German ed. : Beschreibung der Geschichten des Jüdischen Volcks (Leipzig, Germany: Samuel Scheiben, 1654).

Translated from the Latin.

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