Judaeo-Christian Intellectual Culture in the Seventeenth Century A C

MURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such

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JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY A Celebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713) edited by ALLISON P. COUDERT SARAH HUTTON RICHARD H. POPKIN and GORDON M. WEINER

Founding Directors: P. Dibont (Paris) and R.H. Popkin (Washington University, St. Louis & UCLA) Director: Sarah Hutton (The University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) Assistant-Directors: J.E. Force (Lexington); J.e. Laursen (Riverside) Editorial Board: J.F. Battail (Paris); F. Duchesneau (Montreal); A. Gabbey (New York); T. Gregory (Rome); J.D. North (Groningen); MJ. Petry (Rotterdam); J. Popkin (Lexington); G.A.J. Rogers (Keele); Th. Verbeek (Utrecht) Advisory Editorial Board: J. Aubin (Paris); B. Copenhaver (Los Angeles); A. Crombie (Oxford); H. Gadamer (Heidelberg); H. Gouhier (Paris); K. Hanada (Hokkaido University); W. Kirsop (Melbourne); P.O. Kristeller (Columbia University); E. Labrousse (Paris); A. Lossky (Los Angeles); J. Malarczyk (Lublin); 1. Orcibal (Paris); W. Rod (MUnchen); G. Rousseau (Los Angeles); H. Rowen (Rutgers University, N.J.); J.P. Schobinger (ZUrich); J. Tans (Groningen)

JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN INTELLECTUAL CULTURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ACelebration of the Library of Narcissus Marsh (1638-1713)

edited by

ALLISON P. COUDERT Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

SARAH HUTTON University of Hertfordshire, West Hall Campus, U.K.

RICHARD H. POP KIN University of California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

and

GORDON M. WEINER Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

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ISBN 978-94-010-5956-5 ISBN 978-94-011-4633-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-4633-3

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CONTENTS

Introduction M McCarthy .................. ...................................... vii 1. Two Treasures of Marsh's Library R. H Popkin .............................. 1 2. Queen Christina's Latin Sefer-ha-Raziel Manuscript S. Akerman ........ 13 3.

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4. Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists: Philosemities or Antisemites? A. P. Coudert ................................................... .43 5. The Prehistoric English Bible D. S. Katz ..................................... 71 6. Apocrypha Canon and Criticism from Samuel Fisher to John Toland, 1650-1718 J. A. 1. Champion ....................................... 91 7. 'Liberating