HERE were particular Days ap- Tpointed for Sacrifices; and these Days, besides the Sabbath, were called Feasts. See the Authors who have treated of them.
Joan. Jonston, de Festis Hebræorum & Græcorum. Jena, 1670. in 12mo. the second and best Edition, and more compleat than that of 1660 at Brelaw, in 12mo. under the Title of Syntagma. He was a German Lutheran.
Augusti Pfeiffer, Dissert. de Festis Judæorum. Wittemberg, in 1666, in 4to. In it he treats likewise of the Jewish Holidays, as we have already observed in the Beginning of this Part, where we speak of his Sciographia.
Théodor. Thummii, de Festis Judæorum, Christianorum & Ethnicorum. Tubingen, 1624, in 4to. This Treatise is Historical and Theological. The Author was a German Lutheran, Professor at Tubingen, and died in 1630.
Matthæi Dresseri, de Festis Christianorum, Judæorum & Ethnicorum. Lips. 1593, in 8vo. He was born at Frankfort, in 1536, was Divinity Professor at Lipsick, and died in 1667, of his Age 72.
Rodolphi Hospiniani, de iisdem. Genev. 1669. fol. He was was a Calvinist Minister, and died in 1626. His Work is divided into three Books, and there are several Editions of it besides that which we have mentioned; the two last are of 1675, and 1681, at Geneva, in fol. much augmented.
Adriani Coquii, Observationes de rebus naturalib. in vet. Testam. Diisque Syris & Hebræorum Festis. Ulyssing. 1671, in 4to. These are Philological and Phyfiological Observations, and Exercitations upon the Old Testament, wherein the Author clears the sacred Text; particularly such Passages of it as treat of things natural, and the Festivals of the Hebrews. He likewise resolves several dubious Questions. He was of Zealand, a Calvinist, and lived in 1670.
Joan. Meyeri, de origine & causâ Festorum Judæorum. Amstelod. 1693. in 8vo. This is a Dissertation concerning the Original of the Feasts and solemn Day, which the Jews observed in the Land of Canaan, and still observe at this Day. The Author was a Flemish Calvinist, and Professor in the University of Hardwick.
Fabricius, in his Bibliographia, is very circumstantial in his Account of all the Jewish Feasts, and takes notice of all those who have treated of them, p. 311, 317. We shall confine ourselves here to the principal of them.