Author: SCHINDLER (Valentin):
Title: Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicum, et Arabicum. In Qvo Omnes Voces Hebraeae, Chaldaeae, Syrae, Rabbinicae & Arabicae, adjectis hincinde Persicis, Aethiopicis & Turcicis, ordine Alphabetico, sub suis singulae Radicibus degest[a]e continentur ... ; Variorvm Item, Interpretvm Difficiles, ac discrepantes sententiae conferuntur, & examinantur; Cum triplici Indice: 1. Abbreviaturarum Hebraearum copiosissimo. 2. Nominum propriorum hoc Lexico citatorum. 3. Omnium vocum Latinarum, quibus dicta Idiomata explicantur, locupletisimo....
Description: Hanoviae. Typis Joannis Jacobi Hennei, 1612. Large folio, 327 x 207 mms., pp. [xvi], 1992 columns, pp. [152], attractively bound in 19th full panelled calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, black leather label; some slight wear to binding, but a very good to fine copy of this major work on semitic languages. Schindler (1543 - 1604), a professor of Hebrew and oriental languages was said to have worked for decades on this dictionary, which translates Hebrew and four other semitic languages into Latin. In his Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660) (2012), Stephen G. Burnett takes account of the comparative similarity of Hebrew and other semitic languages, and the study of them in the early 17th century. Referring to Schindler's "massive" work as "particularly important because it was the first attempt to produce a universal Semitic reference dictionary that provided information on biblical Hebrew, Rabbinic Hebrew, targumic and Talmudic Aramaic and even Arabic." In his 2013 study of Arabic and Semitic Languages, Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century, Jan Loop amusingly remarks that "In the long run, the study of oriental languages had consequences which proved fatal for the divine status of Hebrew. By referring to the cornucopia of words, letters, and nations involved in this rich language, Valentin Schindler is reported to have championed the opinion - privately, to be sure - that Arabic was older than Hebrew."

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