Scholarship and Fiction (XVII century)

Scholarship and Fiction on Second Temple Judaism in the XVII century drew their attention not only on the social events recorded by Flavius Josephus but also on the relevance that ancient Jewish sources could have for the understanding of the New Testament.

• See Scholarship and Fiction (overview)

Scholarship (XVII century)

Books

• The History of the Old Testament Methodized (1693 Cradock), book
• Il regno d'Erode (1680 Miloni), book
• The Life of Herod the Great (1678 L'Estrange), book
• Historia doctorum misnicorum (1672 Otho), book
• Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670 Spinoza), book
• Dissertatio historico-philologica de Essenes (1669 Roht), book
• Flavius Joseph, Histoire des Juifs (1667 Arnauld), book
• Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae (1658-1674 Lightfoot), book
• Mellificium Hebraicum (1649 Cartwright), book
• Historia apostolica illustrata (1634 Cappel), book
• Rerum Iudaicarum memorabiliorum, ab exitu ex Aegypto ad ultimum usque Hierosilymitanum excidium (1632 Ross), book
• Rabbini et Herodes (1607 Serarius), book
• Trihæresium, seu de celeberrimis tribus, apud Judaeos, Pharisaeorum, Sadducaeorum, et Esseniorum sectis (1604 Serarius), book
• The Famous and Memorable Workes of Iosephus (1602 Lodge), book

Fiction (XVII century)

Novels

• Female Excellency; or, The Ladies Glory (1688 Burton), novel
• Judas der Ertz-Schelm (1686 Abraham a Sancta Clara), novel
• Titus and Berenice (1676 Otway), novel
• Bérénice (1648 Segrais), novel
• Lettres de Bérénice à Titus (1642 Scudéry), novel

Operas

• Die Zerstörung Jerusalems (1692 Conradi), opera
• Il Tito (1666 Cesti), opera
• Il Tito (1668 Binitti), opera

Oratorios

• La Passione (1693 Ariosti), oratorio
• In circumcisione Domini (1683 Charpentier), oratorio
• La passione di Giesù Christo (1677 Cherici), oratorio

Plays

• Caligula (1698 Crowne), play
• Bérénice (1670 Racine), play
• Herod and Mariamne (1673 Pordage), play
• Tite (1660 Magnon), play
• Tite et Bérenice (1679 Corneille), play
• The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian (1677 Crowne), play
• Clêopâtre (1648 La Calprenède), play
• Herodes der Kindermörder (1663 Gryphius), play
• Mariamne (1650 Manuche), play
• Herodes der Kindermörder (1645 Klaj), play
• Judas Macabeo (1641 Calderón de la Barca), play
• La mort des enfants d'Herode (1639 La Calprenède), play
• La vida y muerte de Herodes (1636 Molina), play
• Mariamne (1636 L’Hermite), play
• El mayor monstruo, los celos (1635 Calderón de la Barca), play
• Herodes infanticida (1632 Heinsius), play
• La Giudea distrutta da Vespasiano e Tito (1627 Finella), play
• The Jewes Tragedy (1626 Heminges), play
• Mariamne (1624 Hardy), play
• Herod and Antipater, with the Death of Faire Mariam (1622 Markham), play
• Herodiados (1622 Bidermann), play
• Santa Maria Maddalena (1621 Cicognini), play
• Hierusalem Verwoest (1620 Vondel), play
• La Maddalena (1617 Andreini), play
• La gitana melancólica (1608 Aguilar), play
• Christus patient (1608 Grotius), play
• The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry (1604 Cary), play
• Judas Maccabaeus (1601 Haughton), play
• Divine & heureuse victoire des Machabées sur le Roi Antiochus (1600 Virey du Gravier), play
• Flavia (1600 Stefonio), play

See also:

• Scholarship and Fiction (overview)