View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UNL | Libraries University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department Classics and Religious Studies January 2005 Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century Stephen G. Burnett University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub Part of the Classics Commons Burnett, Stephen G., "Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century" (2005). Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department. 48. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub/48 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Classics and Religious Studies at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. OFFPRINT FROM Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients Essays Offered to Honor Michael V. Fox on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday Edited by RONALD L. TROXEL KELVIN G. FRIEBEL and DENNIS R. MAGARY Winona Lake, Indiana ElSENBRAUNS 2005 Christian Aramaism: The Birth and Growth of Aramaic Scholarship in the Sixteenth Century STEPHEN G. BURNETT University of Nebraska-Lincoln Since the mid-nineteenth century, Jewish historians have marveled at the vigorous growth and vitality of Christian Hebrew scholarship in early modern Europe. Ludwig Geiger and Moritz Steinschneider chronicled parts of this astonishing and unexpected phenomenon.1 During the past 50 years, Karl- heinz Burmeister, R.