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37. - Compendium of the Grammar of the Hebrew Language

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2025

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Steven Nadler
Edited by
Karolina Hübner  and
Justin Steinberg
Karolina Hübner
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Justin Steinberg
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Spinoza began composing his Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae in the late 1660s. He was still working on it when he died in 1677; the unfinished text was included in the Latin OP that Spinoza’s friends published that year, but not the contemporaneous Dutch NS.

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The Cambridge Spinoza Lexicon , pp. 93 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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