Willem Surenhuis (also Surenhuys or Surenhusius, c.1664 in Rottum – 1729) was a Dutch

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scholar of

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, known for his Latin translation of the ''

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'', the first of the complete work. It was published from 1698 to 1703. The son of a German-born minister, he studied at the

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and later taught in

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.Peter van Rooden, ''The Amsterdam Translation of the Mishnah'', p. 257 in William Horbury (editor), ''Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda'' (1999).

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