Category:Second Temple Studies--1600s

John Lightfoot

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Second Temple Studies in the 1600s--Works and Authors

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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.