Giacomo Maria Airoli (1660 – 27 March 1721) was a

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Orientalist and

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commentator. He was born at

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. During his career, he was professor of

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in the

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, and later succeeded Cardinal Tolomei in the chair of controversy. His knowledge of Hebrew is shown by his Hebrew translation of a sermon of

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. Airoli died in Rome on 27 March 1721.

Works

Giacomo Maria Airoli is the author of a number of dissertations on scriptural subjects, mostly chronological, which were highly thought of. A full list of his works is found in

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's (Paris, 1890), I, 717. Sommervogel enumerates fourteen works of Airoli's, chief among which are: * (Rome, 1704) * (Rome, 1713), several times reprinted * (Rome, 1718)

Bibliography

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