ABSTRACT
In 1661 the Biblia Hebraica, the Hebrew Bible, was published by Joseph Athias’s leading publishing house. Remarkably, both Jewish and Christian authorities had given their approval for its publication, and a Calvinist theology professor, Johannes van Leusden, was one of its editors. After the second edition appeared in 1667, Athias was awarded a gold medallion and chain by the Dutch federal parliament, the States General. He printed some 450 titles all told, including the Mishneh Torah a code of Jewish religious law authored by Maimonides in four volumes that was completed by his son Immanuel and the Hebrew Bible translated into Yiddish.
