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Leopold Dukes Leopold Dukes
Leopold Dukes 1810-91, Hungarian Hebrew scholar. He made a collection of rabbinical proverbs and wrote on the history of Jewish literature, notably of Hebrew poetry in the Middle Ages. He also translated into German Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch.... Read more
Joseph ben Ephraim Caro Joseph ben Ephraim Caro
Joseph ben Ephraim Caro , 1488-1575, eminent Jewish codifier of law, b. Toledo, Spain. He left Spain as a child when the Jews were expelled (1492) and finally settled in Safed, Palestine. His literary works rank among the masterpieces of rabbinical literature. Chief among them are the Bet Yosef ... Read more
Rashi Rashi
Rashi , 1040-1105, Jewish exegete, grammarian, and legal authority, b. Troyes, France. The name he is known by is an acronym of Rabbi Solomon bar Isaac. He studied in Worms and Mainz, returning to Troyes c.1065. He taught and wrote commentaries to most of the Bible and Talmud. These, distinguished... Read more
Macrobius Macrobius
Macrobius , fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages... Read more
Basilides Basilides
Basilides , fl. 120-145, Gnostic teacher of Alexandria. He wrote Exegitica (his personal gospel with 24 books of commentary) and poems. He claimed to possess a secret tradition handed down from St. Peter and St. Matthias. The Basilidean sect of Gnosticism attracted many followers.... Read more
Edward Capell Edward Capell
Edward Capell , 1731-81, English Shakespearean scholar. His 10-volume edition of Shakespeare (1768) was the first to incorporate exact collations of all available old texts. He followed this with a commentary, Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (3 vol., 1783).... Read more
Marsilius of Inghen Marsilius of Inghen
MARSILIUS OF INGHEN(1340–1396) Marsilius of Inghen was a scholastic theologian, writer on logical textbooks, and prolific commentator on Aristotle. He played an important role in the foundation of the University of Heidelberg. His significance rests not only on his commentaries on... Read more
Aramaic Aramaic
Aramaic , language belonging to the West Semitic subdivision of the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages ). At some point during the second millenium BC, the Aramaeans abandoned their desert existence and settled in Syria, bringing their language,... Read more
Juan Bautista Villalpando Juan Bautista Villalpando
VILLALPANDO, JUAN BAUTISTA(b. Córdoba, Spain 1552; d. Rome, Italy, 1608), architecture, mathematics, mechanics.Little is known about Villalpando’s life. After entering the Jesuit order in 1575, he studied under Father Jerome Prado, who was writing a commentary on the book of Ezekiel. Evidently... Read more
Niccolo Cabeo Niccolo Cabeo
CABEO, NICCOLò(b. Ferrara, Italy, 26 February 1586;d. Genoa, 30 June 1650), natural philosophy, magnetism, mechanics, methodology. For the original article on Cabeo see DSB, vol. 3.Cabeo, a Catholic priest who had entered the Jesuit religious order as a novice in 1602, is best known for his two... Read more

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