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See also:MARIO DI See also:CALASIO (1550-1620) , See also:Italian Minorite See also:friar, was See also:born at a small See also:town in the Abruzzi whence he took his name . Joining the See also:Franciscans at an See also:early See also:age, he devoted himself to See also:Oriental See also:languages and became an authority on See also:Hebrew . Coming to See also:Rome he was appointed by See also:Paul V., whose See also:confessor he was, to the See also:chair of Scripture at Ara Coeli, where he died on the 1st of See also:February 1620 . See also:Calasio is known by his Concordantiae sacrorum Bibliorum hebraicorum, published in 4 vols . (Rome, 1622), two. years after his See also:death, a See also:work which is based on Nathan's Hebrew See also:Concordance (See also:Venice, 1523) . For See also:forty years Calasio laboured on this work, and he secured the assistance of the greatest scholars of his age . The Concordance evinces See also:great care and accuracy . All See also:root-words are treated in alphabetical See also:order and the whole See also:Bible has been collated for every passage containing the word, so as to explain the See also:original See also:idea, which is illustrated from the cognate usages of the See also:Chaldee, Syrian, Rabbinical Hebrew and Arabic . Calasio gives under each Hebrew word the literal Latin See also:translation, and notes any existing See also:differences from the See also:Vulgate and See also:Septuagint readings . An incomplete See also:English translation of the work was published in See also:London by Romaine in 1747 . Calasio also wrote a Hebrew See also:grammar, Canones generales linguae sanctatae (Rome, 1616), and the Dictionarium hebraicum (Rome, 1617) . |
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