Johann Benedict Carpzov II (24 April 1639 – 23 March 1699) was a German Christian theologian and

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. He was a member of the scholarly Carpzov family. Portret van Johann Benedict Carpzov, RP-P-1914-1354

He studied Hebrew under Johannes Buxtorf II, in Basel. He was appointed professor of Oriental languages at

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in 1668, and was pastor of St. Thomas' 1679-99, and professor of theology 1684-99. He edited in 1674 Wilhelm Schickard's ''Jus Regium Hebræorum'', and, later, the ''Prophetas minores Commentarius'' of Johann Tarnow (Tarnovius),

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's ''Horæ Heb. et Talmudicæ'', Friedrich Lanckisch's ''Concordantiae Bibliorum Germanico-Hebraico-Graecae'', and in 1687 the ''Pugio fidei adversus Mauros et Iudaeos'' of Raimundus Marti. To the last-named work he prefixed his own ''Introductio in Theologiam Judaicam''. Some dissertations by Carpzov were published (1699) by his brother Samuel Benedict Carpzov; and in 1703 appeared his ''Collegium Rabbinico-Biblicum in Libellum Ruth''.

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