BEnedict. Ariæ Montani, Antiq. Judaicæ. l. 9. t. 8. Critic. Sacr. This Work is in the great Criticks, and the Antwerp Polyglot. We shall speak of the Author in the Article of Polyglots, Part III.
Guilielmi Goeriæ, de Mosaicis Antiquitatib. four Vols. in fol. & de Judaicis Antiquitatibus, two Vols. in fol. Amstelod. 1690, 1702. cum figuris in æs incisis. These are both in Flemish. He was himself a Fleming, a Calvinist, and Physician. We shall have another Opportunity of speaking of him in the Article relating to the Commonwealth of the Hebrews.
Joan. Conrad. Dieterici Antiquitates Biblicæ, two Vols. fol. This Book is without any Method, and the Matter of it disposed without Choice or Order. It was printed at Frankfort, in 1671, and 1608, in fol. We shall however be particular in our Account of it. In the first Tome of it the Author treats de Physica Sacra, p. 37. Of the Terrestrial Paradise, p. 73. Of Noah’s Ark, p. 100. Of the Tower of Babel, p. 116. Of the Transplanting and Division of Nations, p. 128. Of the Sceptre of Judah, p. 139. Of the Plagues of Egypt, p. 167. Of the Feasts of the Jews, p. 180. Of their Polity, p. 186. Of the High -Priest’s Habit, p. 192. Of the building of the Tabernacle, p. 200. Then follows Onomatolopia Sacra, p. 225. Of Altars, Statues, and Idols, p. 256. Of the Scripture Geography, Geography, p. 287. Of the Scripture Musick, p. 349. Of the Temple of Jerusalem, p. 361. The Sacred History of Animals, p. 416. Sacred Botany, p. 527. Of the City of Jerusalem, p. 643. Of Divinations and Witchcraft, p. 653. Of the Militia of the Eastern People, p. 663. Lithologia Sacra, p. 675. Of the State of the four Monarchies. Of Coins and Weights, p. 726. Metallogia Sacra, p. 756, and Sacred Anatomy, p. 773.
In the Antiquities of the New Testament, he examines and explains several difficult Places, and gives them the Title of a Philological and Theological Dictionary, in Greek and Latin.
Joan Andreæ Quenstedt, Antiquitates Biblicæ. They were printed at Wittemberg, 1688, 1699, in 4to. He treats in this Piece of the Ecclesiastical Order, and of the sacred Ceremonies in the Old Testament, of Circumcision, and the Paschal Lamb, of the external and idolatrous Worship of the Jews, of the sacred Places, and Feasts of the ancient Hebrews, of the original Jews and Strangers, of their Slaves, the different kinds of Excommunication, and its Forms, of the Law and usage of it, and of Absolution from it, among the ancient Hebrews, &c. We shall take notice of his other Works in the Fourth and Fifth Part.
M. Fabricius, in his Book entituled Bibliographia Antiquaria, c. 1. p. 21. produces a Project formed by M. Jeffery Voigt, of a Thesauris Antiquitatum Hebraicarum: in twelve Books; something whereof we shall here borrow.
The whole first Chapter of this Biblioth. Antiquar. is taken up in the particular mention of those, both Jews and Christians, Ancients and Moderns, who have written concerning the Jewish Antiquities.
Thom. Goodwin. Antiquitates Judaicæ; item, Moses & Aaron, seu, de Ritibus Hebræorum, cum Notis Joan. Henrici Reizii, & Joan. Henrici Hottingeri Nepotis. All this makes but one Work with two different Titles, written by the same Author. Goodwin published this Work in English. It was printed at London, 1685, in 4to. the seventh Edition; in Latin, at Amsterdam, 1679, in 8vo. and at Utrecht, 1698, in 8vo. the fifth Edition, with Notes by Reiz; at Bremen, 1707, in 8vo. the third Edition, with those of Hottinger; at Zurich, 1712, in 12mo. in German, ibid. 1687, in 8vo. in Flemish, 1676, at Amsterdam, in 8vo. In the Edition of 1690, there is a Preface in the Beginning, and Dissertations upon the Theocrasy of the Israelites, and upon the Rechabites. He was an Englishman, of Somersetshire, and Professor at Oxford, and died in 1642.
This Work is divided into six Books: The first treats of Persons; the second of Places; the third of Days and Times; the fourth of Idolatry; the fifth of the Consistory; the sixth of things of a mixt Nature. The whole relates to the Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites of the old Hebrews.
Augusti Pfeiffer, Delineatio Antiquitatum Hebraicarum cum Observationibus Joan. Jacobi Schudt, at Lipsick, 1687, in 12mo. We may add his Sciagraphia, which is in his Critica Sacra, p. 141. inserted by John James Schudt, with Augmentations in his Deliciæ Philologicæ, at the End of the History of the Jews, p. 147. where he has a List of those who have written upon the same Subject, p. 166, 177.
This Sciagraphia contains eight Books: First, of the Idolatry of the ancient Hebrews; the second, of sacred Places; the third, of sacred Persons, and their Ministries; the fourth, of Ceremonies; the fifth, of Feasts and Holidays; the sixth, of Literature, Doctors, and Sects of the Hebrews; the seventh, of Magistrates, and things relating to Polity; the eighth, of domestick Matters, and the Manner of conversing. We shall speak of Pfeiffer in another Place. As for Schudt, he was a German Lutheran, and Rector of the College of Frankfort upon the Mein.
Adriani Relandi, Antiquitates Sacræ veterum Hebræorum delineatæ. This was printed at Utretcht in 1708, in 8vo. and in 1712. larger and more correct at Lipsick, 1714. In it he treats of sacred Places, Persons, Things, and Days. We shall speak of him again upon the Old Testament.
John van Bashuysen, a Lutheran of Hanover, made likewise a Sciographia of the Hebrew Antiquities, printed at Hanover, 1702.
Hermani vander Hardt, Antiquarium Judaicum, mentioned in Fabricius. It does not appear that this was ever printed. We shall speak of the Author elsewhere.
Menasse-Ben-Israel, Thesauro dos Dinim. Printed in the Portuguese Language, at Amsterdam, 1645, in 8vo.
Joan. Wulseri, Theriaca Judaica, mentioned by Fabricius, and printed at Nuremberg, 1681, in 4to.
Christiani Wormii, de corruptis Antiquitatum Hebræarum apud Tacitum & Martialem vestigiis. The same Fabricius speaks of this Author.
Jam. Frederic. Bucher, Antiquitates Hebraicæ & Græcæ selectæ, seu de conclusis, & volutis fæminis. Budissæ, 1717, in 12mo.
Bathas. Bebelii Antiquitates Judaicæ & Evangelicæ, printed at Strasburg, 1673, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran of Strasburg, and died in 1686.
Joach Reimer, Antiquitates Hebraicæ. This is only an Essay of the Antiquities which lie concealed in the New Testament, and are mentioned by the four Evangelists; printed at Copenhagen, 1657, in 4to. We shall speak again of him lower.
Pauli Scherlogii Antiquitatum Hebraïrum Dioptra, divided into two Books, and printed at Lyons, in 1651. in fol.
A Key to the Jewish Antiquities, by Joshua Arnd, or Arndius, was printed in 1707, in 4to. under the Inspection of Charles Ared his Son. It is a kind of Dictionary, wherein he clears a great Number of Passages in Scripture. He was a German Lutheran, and died in 1645. See his Life, written by his Son, in Ripping’s Theological Memoirs, p. 178, and a Discourse pronounced by him at Rostock, and printed in 1711. He promised a Bibliotheque of Jewish Antiquities: We do not know whether he has yet executed this vast Design.
Theodori Dassovii, Antiquitates Hebraicæ, hactenus ineditæ. Altho’ this great Work be not, as yet, printed, we shall however set down here the Titles of it, as we find them in the Nouvelles Litteraires de la Mer Baltique, of 1705. p. 86. 1. The History of the Hebrews, in fol. every Chapter whereof will be divided into six Sections: For example, in those of the Chapter concerning Victims, he will, 1. Give the History of them: 2. Examine the Cases of Conscience which relate to them: 3. Produce what the Scripture says of them: 4. Correct what Authors have written of them: 5. Give The Versions of the Ancients and Moderns: 6. Reconcile such Passages of Scripture as seem contradictory on this Subject.
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The Latin Version of the Talmud Menachoth, that is to say, which treats of the Fruits offer’d to God, together with the Babylonish Gemara, in fol. 3. The Emphatical Hebrew Bible, in fol. wherein he will explain, in an alphabetical Order, all the emphatical Hebrew Words, and those which we meet with in the Bible. He has already published something of this kind at Kiel, 1703, in one Volume, in 4to.
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The Translation of Solomon Jarchi’s Comment upon Exodus and Leviticus, in fol. In this he is to represent the true Frame of Moses’s Tabernacle, and all the Ceremonies used at the Temple of Jerusalem, which had not been sufficiently explained before, as well as the Laws and Polity of the Hebrews, which will be the principal Subject of it.
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The Latin Version, in 4to. of some Books of the Mishnah, wherein he treats of Pledges, Usury, of Hiring, Contracts, Partnership in Trade, Inheritances, Succession, Purchases and Sales, &c. according to the ancient Laws and Customs of the Hebrews.
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The Latin Version of Moses Maimonides’s two Titles, one of Oblations, the other of Shekels; together with that of Joseph Karan’s and Abraham Ben- David’s Scholia. We omit taking notice of the other Versions, that we may not be too long. What we have mentioned may be sufficient for any one to judge of the Importance of this Work. We have already spoken of the Author.
What Christopher Simler has published in his German Antiquities of the Scripture is much shorter, and more adapted to the Capacity of Beginners. He was a German Lutheran. They were printed at Hall, 1708, in 12mo.