Dr Piet van Boxel
Position:
Retired (formerly Hebraica and Judaica Curator, Bodleian Library)
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Research Interests:
Hebrew manuscripts and early Hebrew printing with special interest in ecclesiastical censorship of Hebrew books in 16th Century Italy.
Current Projects:
Preparing an exhibition of Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in their oriental and occidental political, cultural and socio-religious context.
Recent Publications:
- Cardinal Santoro and the expurgation of Hebrew literature, The Roman Inquisition, the Index and the Jews, S Wendehorst ed, Leiden, 2004, pp. 19-34
- ‘Robert Bellarmine, Christian Hebraist and Censor’, History of Scholarship; a selection of papers from the seminar on the history of scholarship held annually at the Warburg Institute, Christopher Ligota and Jean-Louis Quantin ed. Oxford, 2006, pp. 251-275
Forthcoming:
- Censorship and conversion of the Jews under Pope Gregory XIII as reflected in 7 mss. in the Biblioteca Vaticana
