Asaph Ben-Tov, PhD (Jerusalem 2007), Habilitation (Erfurt 2019) is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and co-editor (with Yaacov Deutsch and Tamar Herzig) of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe (2013) and (with Martin Mulsow) of Knowledge and Profanation (2019).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist1 First Academic Appearances2 Studying Oriental Languages3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena4 Commonplace Learning2 Early Endeavours1 His Father’s Editor2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus3 History4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism5 The Syriac Bible3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647)3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia4 Fata libelli4 Travels in the Republic of Letters1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg2 Iter ad mare balticum – A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642)3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650–1651)5 Professor of History (1652–1655)1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion1 Professor of Theology2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches3 Armenia (1665)4 The Muscovites (1665)5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668)6 Beyond Church History7 Islam8 Umbra in luce (1667)9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621–1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra11 Christian Hoffmann’s Umbra in luce (1667)A Hieroglyphic Farewelland Concluding CommentsAppendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina CollectionBibliographyIndex

Asaph Ben-Tov, PhD (Jerusalem 2007), Habilitation (Erfurt 2019) is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and co-editor (with Yaacov Deutsch and Tamar Herzig) of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe (2013) and (with Martin Mulsow) of Knowledge and Profanation (2019).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist1 First Academic Appearances2 Studying Oriental Languages3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena4 Commonplace Learning2 Early Endeavours1 His Father’s Editor2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus3 History4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism5 The Syriac Bible3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647)3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia4 Fata libelli4 Travels in the Republic of Letters1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg2 Iter ad mare balticum – A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642)3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650–1651)5 Professor of History (1652–1655)1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion1 Professor of Theology2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches3 Armenia (1665)4 The Muscovites (1665)5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668)6 Beyond Church History7 Islam8 Umbra in luce (1667)9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621–1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra11 Christian Hoffmann’s Umbra in luce (1667)A Hieroglyphic Farewelland Concluding CommentsAppendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina CollectionBibliographyIndex

Asaph Ben-Tov, PhD (Jerusalem 2007), Habilitation (Erfurt 2019) is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity (2009) and co-editor (with Yaacov Deutsch and Tamar Herzig) of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe (2013) and (with Martin Mulsow) of Knowledge and Profanation (2019).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist1 First Academic Appearances2 Studying Oriental Languages3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena4 Commonplace Learning2 Early Endeavours1 His Father’s Editor2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus3 History4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism5 The Syriac Bible3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647)3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia4 Fata libelli4 Travels in the Republic of Letters1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg2 Iter ad mare balticum – A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642)3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650–1651)5 Professor of History (1652–1655)1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion1 Professor of Theology2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches3 Armenia (1665)4 The Muscovites (1665)5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668)6 Beyond Church History7 Islam8 Umbra in luce (1667)9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621–1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra11 Christian Hoffmann’s Umbra in luce (1667)A Hieroglyphic Farewelland Concluding CommentsAppendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina CollectionBibliographyIndex