A School of Christian Hebraists in Thirteenth-Century England: A Unique Hebrew-Latin-French and English Dictionary and its Sources
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Abstract This paper is a preliminary presentation of unique Hebrew-Latin-Old French dictionary written by Christian scholars in 13th century England, to appear shortly print. The authors this exceptional work did not follow the patristic tradition Hebraism and focus on anti-Jewish polemics, but rather turned Jewish Rabbinic Medieval sources, such as commentaries Rachi, lexicon Solomon ibn Parhon or Alpha Beta de-Ben Sira for their understanding Hebrew text Bible. Following grammatical approach classical Spanish school grammar, real 'philological' work. It stems from use Bible correcting Vulgate represented bilingual Hebrew-Latin manuscripts produced studied England late 12th centuries.
European Journal of Jewish Studies