Judaica
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Cunaeus, Petrus. La Republique des Hebreux. Edited and translated by Willem Goeree.
Three volumes. With numerous plates and maps, most fold-out. Ex-library. Contemporary mottled calf, rubbed, spines worn. 8vo. cf. Laor, 303, 1027.
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1705.
Peter van der Cunaeus (1586-1638) was a professor of Latin at Leiden. His De Republica Hebraeorum was first published in Leiden in 1617. “De Republica Hebraeorum is essentially a conventional presentation of the traditional Calvinist views on biblical antiquity and on Judaism and the Jews …The true novelty of his work however, consists in its quarrying of [Maimonides’] Mishneh Torah for the study of the ancient Jewish commonwealth.” Aaron L. Katchen, Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (1984) p. 39.
