BEde, Cajetan, Sanctius, M. le Clerc, and the Rabbins Solomon Jarchi, and Aben Ezra, and the Authors who have written on the holy Bible.
The Comment of Gaspar Sanctius is joined with that on Ruth; and that of Cajetan with his Comment upon Joshua. See above.
John le Clerc ends his Comment upon the historical Books, with Ezra and Esther.
Among the Jews, Joseph, the Son of David, made a Comment upon Esdras in Hebrew; printed at Bologna, in 1528. and at Venice, in 1530. He was a Portugueze of Lisbon, and died in 1539.
Treatises and Dissertations upon the Books of Esdras and Nehemiah.
John Christopher Artopæus wrote a Dissertation upon Xerxes, and King Cyrus, the Deliverer of the Jews; at Strasburg, 1689, in 8vo. See upon Judith.
Paul Heigel, on the Gates of old Jerusalem; at Helmstadt, 1681, in 4to. He was a German Lutheran, and Professor of Mathematicks at Marienburg, towards the end of the 17th Century.
The Critical Observations of John Philip Hein, concerning the Original of the Name of Ecbatane, with his Performance on Noah’s Ark. See above.
Pfeffenger’s Dissertations on the Nethinims, in ch. 8. ver. 20. with what he published upon Joshua. See above. He was a German Lutheran of Strasburg; Professor of the Oriental Languages in the beginning of the 18th Century.
See our Dissertations on the third and fourth apocryphal Books of Esdras, whether Ezra be the Restorer of the Books of Scripture.——Whether Ezra changed the old Hebrew Characters, in order to substitute the Chaldee in their room; in our Collection, tom. 1. p. 31, &c 41. wherein he principally attacks Usury. It makes but one and the same Work, with what he put out upon Elijah and Naboth. It is the third Book.
Bede, in the body of his Works, Serrarius, Sanctius, and Fabianus Justinianus, have likewise explain’d Tobit; the latter in an historical manner, with moral Instructions, at Rome, 1620, in fol. at Antwerp, 1629. He join’d with it a chronological Synopsis of the Age of Tobit and Tobias, according to the Hebrew Text, the Latin, Greek, Syriac and Arabic. He was of Genoa, Priest of the Oratory, made Bishop of Aiazzo in 1618. and died in 1627. Didacus Celada, a Jesuit, who lived in 1657, has written upon Ruth, Judith, Susannah, Deborah, and Tobit. His Comments are literal and moral. That upon Tobit was printed separately at Lyons, 1648. and 1654, in fol.
Serrarius also published his Comment separately at Mentz, 1610. and at Paris, 1611, in fol. See Joshua. Gaspar Sanctius has join’d his with what he composed upon the historical Books. See Ruth.
Frederick Nausea, Bishop of Vienna in Austria, who died in 1552, has written upon Tobit; as well as David Maudenus. Nausea’s Work is no more than a very short Narrative; printed at Cologn, 1532, in 8vo. Sixtus of Siena thinks it both elegant and useful. He was a German of Franconia. David Maudenus published a Treatise upon the Life of Tobit, intitled, Miroir de la vie morale, at Antwerp, 1631, in fol. At which Place he was born, in 1575. He was Curate of St. Mary’s at Brussels, and died in 1641.
Claude Badwell, a French Calvinist, Professor of the Belles Lettres at Nismes, who died in 1567, translated into Latin, from the Greek Edition of Complutum, those Books of the Old Testament which the Protestants hold to be apocryphal; and added a literal and critical Comment. His Annotations are in the Great Criticks, and in Robert Stephens’s Latin Bible. Those of Drusius were printed at Franekar, in 1591, in 4to.