Mario di Calasio (1550 in
Calascio,
Abruzzi
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,
Italy – February 1, 1620 in
Ara Coeli
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) was an Italian
Minorite
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friar.
Biography
Joining the
Franciscans at an early age, he devoted himself to
Oriental languages and became an authority on
Hebrew. Once entering Rome he was appointed by
Paul V
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, whose confessor he was to the chair of
Scripture at Ara Coeli. Calasio is known by his ''Concordantiae sacrorum Bibliorum hebraicorum'', published in 4 vols. (Rome, 1622), two years after his death, a work which is based on
Nathan
Nathan or Natan may refer to:
People
*Nathan (given name), including a list of people and characters with this name
*Nathan (surname)
*Nathan (prophet), a person in the Hebrew Bible
* Nathan (son of David), biblical figure, son of King David an ...
's ''Hebrew Concordance'' (Venice, 1523).
Works
For forty years Calasio labored on this work, and he secured the assistance of the greatest scholars of his age. The
Concordance
Concordance may refer to:
* Agreement (linguistics), a form of cross-reference between different parts of a sentence or phrase
* Bible concordance, an alphabetical listing of terms in the Bible
* Concordant coastline, in geology, where beds, or la ...
evinces great care and accuracy. All root-words are treated in alphabetical order and the whole
Bible has been collated for every passage containing the word, so as to explain the original idea, which is illustrated from the
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words in different languages that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymology, etymological ancestor in a proto-language, common parent language. Because language c ...
usages of the
Aramaic,
Syriac,
Rabbinical Hebrew and
Arabic. Calasio gives under each Hebrew word the literal
Latin translation, and notes any existing differences from the
Vulgate and
Septuagint readings. An incomplete English translation of the work was published in London by Romaine in 1747. Calasio also wrote a Hebrew grammar, ''Canones generales linguae sanctatae'' (Rome, 1616), and the ''Dictionarium hebraicum'' (Rome, 1617).
References
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External links
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1550 births
1620 deaths
Linguists from Italy
Conventual Friars Minor
Christian Hebraists
Calascio