Religion Booknotes
Lawrence S. Cunningham December 27, 2011 - 10:45am
“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”
Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship
Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg
Harvard University Press, $35, 392 pp.
The conventional view of the sixteenth-century humanists is that they reached back toward pagan antiquity as part of a revolt against Christianity. In fact, the humanist turn,...
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