Johann Benedict Carpzov II (24 April 1639 – 23 March 1699) was a German Christian theologian and

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. He was a member of the scholarly

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family.

Portret van Johann Benedict Carpzov, RP-P-1914-1354

He studied Hebrew under

Johannes Buxtorf II Johannes Buxtorf the Younger, (13 August 1599 – 16 August 1664) was son of the scholar Johannes Buxtorf, and a Protestant Christian Hebraist. Life Buxtorf was born in Basel, where he also died. Before the age of thirteen he matriculated at ...

, in Basel. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages at

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in 1668, and was pastor of St. Thomas' 1679-99, and professor of theology 1684-99. He edited in 1674

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's ''Jus Regium Hebræorum'', and, later, the ''Prophetas minores Commentarius'' of

Johann Tarnow Johann, typically a male given name, is the German form of ''Iohannes'', which is the Latin form of the Greek name ''Iōánnēs'' (), itself derived from Hebrew name ''Yochanan'' () in turn from its extended form (), meaning "Yahweh is Gracious" ...

(Tarnovius),

John Lightfoot John Lightfoot (29 March 1602 – 6 December 1675) was an English churchman, rabbinical scholar, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Life He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, the son of ...

's ''Horæ Heb. et Talmudicæ'',

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's ''Concordantiae Bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Graecae'', and in 1687 the ''Pugio fidei adversus Mauros et Iudaeos'' of

Raimundus Marti Raymond Martini, also called Ramon Martí in Catalan, was a 13th-century Dominican friar and theologian. He is remembered for his polemic work ''Pugio Fidei'' (c. 1270). In 1250 he was one of eight friars appointed to make a study of oriental lan ...

. To the last-named work he prefixed his own ''Introductio in Theologiam Judaicam''. Some dissertations by Carpzov were published (1699) by his brother

Samuel Benedict Carpzov Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

; and in 1703 appeared his ''Collegium Rabbinico-Biblicum in Libellum Ruth''.

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