O sooner had the Jews departed NWork de Disciplinis Hebraicis, and the Vanity of them, is written in Hebrew Verses, with this Title, Itinera Deserti, and was printed at Venice, 1539, in 4to.
Christiani Frederic. Willischii de filiis Levitarum, Lips. 1708.
Rodolfi Martini Meelfuhrer, Diatriba de meritis Hebræorum in rem littera riam. Wittembergæ, 1669. See our Lists on St. Matthew, and his Title in the Index.
Henry Hottinger has translated into Latin the Treatise of the Gemara concerning Incest, the Creation, and the Chariot; printed at Leyden, 1704, in 4to. There are Notes to it, taken from the Rabbins. See his Title in the Index.
Schabatai Ben-Joseph, a Jew, Brother to the most eminent of the Rabbins, published a Catalogue of Rabbinical Books, entituled, Labia Dormientium, printed at Amsterdam, 1683, in 4to. In his Preface he speaks of the different Uses which may be made of his Book, and their Manner of teaching in the Synagogue of Amsterdam.
Maimonides, de Studio Legis, cum Notis Roberti Clavering. Oxon. 1705. 4to.
Henrici Otthonis, Historia 130 Doctorum Mischnicorum, printed at Amsterdam, 1699, and 1709. in 12mo. in Latin, with Notes by another Author.
Fabricius, in his Bibliographia, mentions several others who have treated the same Subject, p. 616.
To this Article may be referred our Dissertation on good and bad Angels. It is prefixed to our Comment upon St. Luke. from the true Spirit of that Religion which they had received from Moses, and the true Worship which he had prescribed to them, but they were divided into several Sects, which had each their particular Opinions, Doctrine, Customs, and Traditions: As we see in the Books we are now going to mention.
Nicolai Serrarii, Tribæresis, seu de tribus Judæorum Sectis, inter Opuscula ejusdem. See his Title in the Index.
Josephi Scaligeri Elenchus Tribæreseos, among his Works; and with the Article following:
Joan. Drusii, de Sectis Judæorum. These Treatises of Scaliger and Drusius were printed at Arnhem, by Janson, 1619, in 4to. In them is Drusius’s Answer to Serrarius, wherein he abuses him very much. There are two Letters prefixed; one by Drusius, addressed to John Prideaux, Divinity Professor at Oxford; and another which is forged in his Name. At the End are Notes by Sixtinus Amama, who had the care of this Edition.
The Dissertation of James Trigland, concerning the Caraites, was printed with what Christopher Wolsius published upon the same Subject, at Hamburg, 1714, in 4to. He took care likewise to have those of Serrarius, Drusius, and Scaliger, printed; to which he has added his own, printed at Delf, 1703, in 4to. Trigland was a Dutchman, a Calvinist, Professor at Leyden, and died in 1706.
Julii Bartolocci, de Saducæis, Baithuseis, aliisque Judæorum Sectis, t. 1. Bibl. Rab. Rab. p. 376. and Imbonati de Samaritanis, ibid. tom. 4. p. 171. Bartolocci de Rechabitis, ibid. tom. 1. p. 122.
We discourse concerning the Sects of the Jews, before our Comment on St. Mark, and in our Dissertation on the Rechabites, prefixed to Jeremiah.
M. Basnage’s History of the Jews, l. 3. t. 1. c. 1, 2, 3, &c. Of the Jewish Sects, ibid. the ninth Book, ch. 1. He treats in particular of the Samaritans in his whole 8th Book, of the Talmudists, Caraites and Cabalists throughout the 9th.
Jacobi Rhenferd, Dissert. de fictis Judæorum hæresibus, & Adriani Relandi, de Samaritanis. These Dissertations by Rhenferd and Reland are to be published in the Thesaurus of Hebrew Antiquities, tom. 11. We have already given some account of them both. Reland has composed besides two Dissertations upon some Samaritan Medals, printed at Amsterdam and Utrecht, in 1702, 1704, in 4to. two Vols.
Richard Simon’s Dissertation on the Caraites and Samaritans. See his Title in the Index. Herman. Witsius, de Rechabitis. This makes the ninth Exercitation in the second Tome of his Miscellanea Sacra, whereof we have said something heretofore. See his Title.
Samaritanorum Epistolæ ad Scaligerum, Ludolfum, & fratres in Angliâ, diversis temporibus Scriptæ.
Chronicon Samaritanorum, whereof we have already said something.