1703 HOLY BIBLE Hebrew JEWISH Latin LEATHER Antique BIBLIA HEBRAICA Fine Binding

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1703 HOLY BIBLE Hebrew JEWISH Latin LEATHER Antique BIBLIA HEBRAICA Fine Binding:
$399.99

Bshem miqdash mʻat = Seu Biblia parva Hebraeo-Latina : in qvibus dicta insigniora omnia ex codice Hebraeo sec. ordinem libb. biblicorum, & in his pleraeq́ve, & tantùm non omnes voces Hebr. & Chaldaicae codicis s. cum cura exhibentur, in usum ss. theol. et sacratioris philologiae cultorum

Opitz, Heinrich. Leipzig: Johann Caspar Meyer, 1703.

Hebrew Old Testament with accompanying commentary in Latin by Heinrich Opitz; Genesis- Malachi. Text in Hebrew with inclusions of Latin. Added illustrated title-page, along with full title-page; all paged with borders. Additionally illustrated with head and tail pieces & decorative initials. [20], 624 pages; complete. Bound in fine half- leather, marbled paper over boards; the spine with raised bands and black leather title label, like new. Pages all present and in fantastic shape with light wear with some very minor browning. Unmarked. Gilt page edges. 12mo; measures 5.75\" x 3.25\" x 1.25\". Very rare. Good luck!

Heinrich Opitz

Heinrich Opitz (* 14. February 1642 in Altenburg ; † 24. February 1712 in Kiel ; also: Heinrich Opitius) was a German theologian and Orientalist .

Life

Heinrich Opitz - son of a silk merchant - was because of his early interest in singing and music at the age of thirteen years in the court orchestra of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II. Appointed. 1662 Opitz began studies at the University of Wittenberg , later University of Jena , where he 1665 Magister was. Next, he stayed in Leipzig and Hamburg and worked on oriental languages . In 1667 Opitz traveled to Kiel. There he became a lecturer . Another three years later it was a journey through the country in the course of studies of Oriental Languages Netherlands and England granted. To expand his knowledge, he visited the libraries in Leiden and Utrecht . In London , he attended the Royal Library; simultaneously he befriended another orientalist, Edmund Castle . Next to Opitz held in Oxford and excerpted oriental manuscripts . Then he returned to Kiel back, but he found no job and moved on to Jena . There he worked as an adjunct of the philosophical faculty of the University. 1675 he received a professorship in Kiel Greek language , three years later he became a professor of Oriental languages and in 1689 at the same time professor and doctor of theology. In 1704 Opitz was Oberkonsistorialrat .

Opitz died in 1712 in Kiel at the age of 70 years. He left two sons, the theologians Paul Friedrich Opitz and Josias Heinrich Opitz . Both his textbook of Hebrew and his Hebrew Bible edition was many decades in use.

Works

Atrium linguae sanctae (Hamburg 1671)
Novum lexicon Hebraeo-Chaldaeo-biblicum (Lippstadt in 1692)
Biblia Hebraica Torah Neviim, Ktuvim. (Cum optimistic impressis & Manuscriptis codicibus in & Extra Germaniam per Plurimos annos incredibile labore & diligentia collata, & juxta MASORAM, Or Torah, Schaar hanneginoth, aliaque Hebraeorum Principia Critica solitice examinata, accuratissime emendata & fideliter recensita ...), Kiel, in Reuther Bartholdi, 1709.. with dedication and initiation lat. Frontispiece of Scott.

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