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'''Azariah de' Rossi''' (c1513-1578) was a Jewish Italian scholar. | '''Azariah de' Rossi''' (c1513-1578) was a Jewish Italian scholar, and a specialist in [[Second Temple Studies]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ||
Azariah de' Rossi was the first modern Jewish scholar to focus on Second Temple Judaism, its history, archaeology and literature (especially Aristeas, Philo and Josephus), and use non-Jewish sources (secular and Christian) to supplement or check the data in Talmudic literature. He also was the first Jewish scholar to manifest an specific interest for the [[Essenes]], who he identified with the [[Therapeutae]] and the [[Boethusians]]<ref name="taylorEssees">[[The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012 Taylor), book]], p. 5</ref>. | |||
Proficient in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian, studied medicine, archaeology, history, Greek and Roman antiquities and Christian ecclesiastical history, Azariah de' Rossi was the first modern Jewish scholar to focus on Second Temple Judaism, its history, archaeology and literature (especially Aristeas, Philo and Josephus), and use non-Jewish sources (secular and Christian) to supplement or check the data in Talmudic literature. He also was the first Jewish scholar to manifest an specific interest for the [[Essenes]], who he identified with the [[Therapeutae]] and the [[Boethusians]]<ref name="taylorEssees">[[The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea (2012 Taylor), book]], p. 5</ref>. | |||
====Books==== | ====Books==== | ||
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==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
==Biography== | |||
* See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azariah_dei_Rossi Wikipedia] / [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_de%27_Rossi Wikipedia.it] / [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azaria_dei_Rossi Wikipedia.de] | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
*Benedetto Levi, ''Della vita e degli scritti di Azaria de' Rossi'' (Padova: Crescini, 1868) | *Benedetto Levi, ''Della vita e degli scritti di Azaria de' Rossi'' (Padova: Crescini, 1868) | ||
*Salo Wittmayer Baron, ''La méthode historique d'Azaria de'Rossi (Paris: Elias, 1929) | *Salo Wittmayer Baron, ''La méthode historique d'Azaria de'Rossi (Paris: Elias, 1929) | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=431&letter=R JewEn.com] | *[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=431&letter=R JewEn.com] | ||
Revision as of 12:10, 15 November 2013
Azariah de' Rossi (c1513-1578) was a Jewish Italian scholar, and a specialist in Second Temple Studies.
Biography
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Proficient in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian, studied medicine, archaeology, history, Greek and Roman antiquities and Christian ecclesiastical history, Azariah de' Rossi was the first modern Jewish scholar to focus on Second Temple Judaism, its history, archaeology and literature (especially Aristeas, Philo and Josephus), and use non-Jewish sources (secular and Christian) to supplement or check the data in Talmudic literature. He also was the first Jewish scholar to manifest an specific interest for the Essenes, who he identified with the Therapeutae and the Boethusians[1].
Books
Footnotes
Biography
- See Wikipedia / Wikipedia.it / Wikipedia.de
References
- Benedetto Levi, Della vita e degli scritti di Azaria de' Rossi (Padova: Crescini, 1868)
- Salo Wittmayer Baron, La méthode historique d'Azaria de'Rossi (Paris: Elias, 1929)