Willem Surenhuis

Willem Surenhuis

Willem Surenhuis (Surenhuys, Surenhusius) (c.1664-1729) was a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew, known for his Latin translation of the "Mishnah", the first of the complete work. It was published from 1698 to 1703. The son of a German-born minister, he studied at the University of Groningen, and later taught in Amsterdam. [Peter van Rooden, "The Amsterdam Translation of the Mishnah", p. 257 in William Horbury (editor), "Hebrew Study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda" (1999).] .

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