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BROUGHTON, HUGH. Pitgam al Igeret Ish Yehudi. [Hebrew treatise on biblical history and missionary matters with Latin translation]. Amsterdam: [probably Jodocus Hondius], 1606. 8vo, disbound. Unvocalised, Latin translation printed in the outer margin of the pages. Vinograd, Amsterdam 7; Fuks 143; Steinschneider 4629,6.
This edition, of great rarity, belongs to a group of at least seven pamphlets, privately published by the author and produced at the first Amsterdam press capable of Hebrew printing. Hugh Broughton, who had studied Hebrew at Cambridge, spent most of his life in Germany and Holland. His spirit of controversy drove him to defend a peculiar conception of Biblical chronology, to attack the existing English Bible translations and to attempt the conversion of Jews to Christianity.
This edition, of great rarity, belongs to a group of at least seven pamphlets, privately published by the author and produced at the first Amsterdam press capable of Hebrew printing. Hugh Broughton, who had studied Hebrew at Cambridge, spent most of his life in Germany and Holland. His spirit of controversy drove him to defend a peculiar conception of Biblical chronology, to attack the existing English Bible translations and to attempt the conversion of Jews to Christianity.