“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance ScholarshipAnthony Grafton and Joanna WeinbergHarvard 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, especi (...)
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