Karaism and Christian Hebraism: a new document. From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In September 1641 Joannes Stephanus Rittangel sent a Hebrew letter to John Selden, the prominent English jurist and Christian Hebraist, soliciting Selden's assistance in publishing Karaite manuscripts. The letter's publication here contributes both to our knowledge of the activities of Rittangel--expert in Karaism and Professor Extraordinary of Semitic languages at the University of Koenigsberg--and to the picture we have of Christian Hebraism in England. From this letter and from references to Rittangel in contemporary literature, we can reconstruct some of his activities from the time he ...

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