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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Azariah de' Rossi was born in Mantua [Italy], the descendant of an old Jewish family which claimed to have been brought by Titus from Jerusalem. Proficient in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian, studied medicine, archaeology, history, Greek and Roman antiquities and Christian ecclesiastical history. | |||
==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ||
Azariah de' Rossi | 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 secular sources to supplement or check the data in Talmudic literature. | ||
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[[Category:Scholars|Rossi]] | [[Category:Scholars|Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Second Temple Studies|1513 Rossi]] | [[Category:Second Temple Studies|1513 Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Jewish|Rossi]] | [[Category:Jewish|Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Jewish Scholarship|1513 Rossi]] | [[Category:Jewish Scholarship|1513 Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Italian|Rossi]] | [[Category:Italian|Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Italian Scholarship|1513 Rossi]] | [[Category:Italian Scholarship|1513 Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Born in the 1510s|1513 Rossi]] | [[Category:Born in the 1510s|1513 Rossi]] | ||
[[Category:Died in the 1570s|1578 Rossi]] | [[Category:Died in the 1570s|1578 Rossi]] | ||
Revision as of 01:46, 27 May 2010
Azariah de' Rossi (c1513-1578) was a Jewish Italian scholar.
Biography
Azariah de' Rossi was born in Mantua [Italy], the descendant of an old Jewish family which claimed to have been brought by Titus from Jerusalem. Proficient in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian, studied medicine, archaeology, history, Greek and Roman antiquities and Christian ecclesiastical history.
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 secular sources to supplement or check the data in Talmudic literature.