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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Orientalist, philologist of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. The father of Biblical research in Switzerland. In his commentary on | Orientalist, philologist of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. The father of Biblical research in Switzerland. In his commentary on Revelation (''Diligens atque erudita enarratio libri Apocalypseos Ioannis'', 1549) and 4 Ezra maintained the identification of Antichrist with the Papacy, yet showed a genuine attempt to extricate himself from the morass of contemporary polemics and come nearer to discovering what the apocalyptic writers wished their readers to understand. | ||
==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ==Works on Second Temple Judaism== | ||
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Theodor Bibliander (Theodor Buchmann; 1506-1564) was a Swiss scholar.
Biography
Orientalist, philologist of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic. The father of Biblical research in Switzerland. In his commentary on Revelation (Diligens atque erudita enarratio libri Apocalypseos Ioannis, 1549) and 4 Ezra maintained the identification of Antichrist with the Papacy, yet showed a genuine attempt to extricate himself from the morass of contemporary polemics and come nearer to discovering what the apocalyptic writers wished their readers to understand.