Category:Second Temple Studies--1600s

John Lightfoot

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Second Temple Studies in Scholarship & the Arts: the 1600s

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Overview

Among Christian Hebraists, post-biblical Jewish sources began more and more frequently to be studied for apologetic reasons in order to illustrate the New Testament and confirm its "credibility." In the 17th century, John Lightfoot (1602-1675) wrote the first comprehensive commentary of New Testament based on Jewish, mostly halakhic, literature.

Noticeable works of the period

• Kurtze Beschreibung und Erzählung von einen Juden mit Namen Ahasverus (Short Description and Tale of a Jew Named Ahasuerus / 1602), novel
• The Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus (1602 Lodge), book
• Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae (1658-1674 Lightfoot), book
• Bérénice (1670 Racine), play