Apáczai Csere János héber nyelvi műveltsége I. : Az Oratio de summa scholarum necessitate héber nyelvű részletei (1656)

Zsengellér, József (2023) Apáczai Csere János héber nyelvi műveltsége I. : Az Oratio de summa scholarum necessitate héber nyelvű részletei (1656). IRODALOMTÖRTÉNETI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 127 (1). pp. 58-64. ISSN 0021-1486

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Abstract

Hebrew manuscript of A páczAi csere János (1625–1659), discovered in the late 1960s, prompted a lively debate about the depth of his knowledge of Hebrew. The debate remained unresolved at the time, but now an examination of the Latin manuscript of his Oratio (1656) has revealed new aspects. In his manuscript of this inauguration speech, A páczAi wrote in Hebrew the quotations of the biblical, rabbinical and medieval Hebrew texts. The confident and brisk orthography, the independent translation of the medieval commenta- tor’s Hebrew text, and the use of unpunctuated Hebrew text make it clear that he not only used, but also understood and cultivated the Hebrew language. Moreover, the ibn ezrA quotation was written in Rashi script, which was hard- ly used by any of the contemporary Hungarian Christian Hebraists. Since the Hungarian translations of the Oratio only indicate in footnotes that his text includes Hebrew script and textual analysis, the participants in the above-mentioned discussion could not use these facts to draw a positive conclusion. On the basis of the Oratio’s Hebrew excerpts analyzed in our article, the printed edition and translations need to be improved, and we have also ascer- tained that A páczAi csere János was one of the most skilled Hungarian Hebraists of his time.

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