Willielmi Schickard, de Festo Purim;
WSpain, who lived in the middle of the 17th Century. His literal and moral Comment was printed at Madrid, 1648, in fol. We may add Cajetan, Serrarius, Celada, and Feuardentius, whose Comment was printed at Paris, 1585. and at Cologn, 1594, in fol.
Olivier Bonart wrote a literal Comment, printed at Cologn, in 1647, in fol. under the feigned Name of Enherpart, according to Du Pin. He was of Ypres; came into the World in 1570. turned Jesuit in 1599, and died in 1655.
Ludovicus Henr. Aquinas made Notes upon this Book in French, printed at Paris, 1624, in 4to. Du Pin, in his Tables, and Colomesius, in his France Orientale, say it is only a Translation of Rabbi Solomon Jarchi’s Hebrew Comment. Aquinas was a Jew, born in France; and turned Catholick about 1620.
Lawrence Cuper’s Comment was printed at Mentz, in 1600, according to Croväus, and Lipenius, who says he was Bishop of Tournay. He was of Grandmont in Flanders; turn’d Carmelite, and died in 1594. of his Age 66. Andreas Valerius, in his Bibl. Belgica, says he understood the History of his Country perfectly.
Among the Protestants are, M. le Clerc, Amama, and Drusius. The Annotations of this last on Esther, were printed at Leyden, 1586. and is one of his first Composi- printed at Tubing, 1633, in 8vo. He was a German Lutheran of Tubing, and died in 1635. of his Age 43. being taken off by the Plague.
Jul. Bartolocci, de Purim Encæniorum Festo Mardochæi & Estheræ, Bibl. Rab. tom. 1. p. 400.
William Selden has treated of the Divinity or Inspiration of the Book of Esther, in his Exercitations, or Otia Theologica. See above.
John Reisk made two Exercitations on Esther’s Husband; at Jena, 1677, in 4to. the second Edition. He was a German Lutheran; and died in 1701. of his Age 60. He was Master of the Latin Tongue in its purity, and had read much; according to the Acts of Lipsick for the Year 1686. p. 463.
Fabricius, in his Bibliotheca Græca, speaks of the Additions made to the Book of Esther, tom. 11. l. 3. c. 29. p. 745.
Lipenius, in his Bibl. Theol. mentions a great number of Authors on this Book, in tom. 1. upon Esther.