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Sixtus of Siena (or Sixtus Senensis) (1520–1569) was a Jew who converted to
His work ''Bibliotheca sancta ex præcipuis Catholicæ Ecclesiæ auctoribus collecta''"Sacred library collected from the precepts of the authorities of the Catholic Church". (Venice 1566) treats the sacred writers and their works, the best manner of translating and explaining Holy Writ, and gives a copious list of Biblical interpreters, in eight books. It was the first of the genre of encyclopedic teaching repertories of dogma and Church tradition issued in the wake of the Council of Trent.
"Franciscan scholars": Sixtus of Siena
* {{Authority control 1520 births 1569 deaths 16th-century Italian Jews 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Italian Dominicans People convicted of heresy Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism People from Siena
Sixtus of Siena (or Sixtus Senensis) (1520–1569) was a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism
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, and became a Roman Catholic theologian.
Biography
He began his career as a Franciscan preacher, speaking throughout Italy. Though he was convicted to die in Rome for the crime of heresy or recidivism, he was saved by a Dominican inquisitor, the future Pope Pius V, who repealed the condemnation when Sixtus recanted and pledged to transfer to the Dominican Order instead. He is considered one of the two most outstanding Dominican scholars of his generation. He had as a masterLancelotto Politi
Lancelotto Politi (religious name Ambrosius Catharinus, 1483–1553) was an Italian Dominican canon lawyer, theologian and bishop.
Historians and theologians generally have regarded Catharinus as a brilliant eccentric. He was frequently accu ...
, some of whose writings he later publicly criticised. Sixtus apparently destroyed all his remaining manuscripts and writings before his death.
Sixtus coined the term '' deuterocanonical'' to describe certain books of the Catholic Old Testament
The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...
that had not been accepted as canonical by Jews and Protestants but which appeared in the Septuagint, and the definer for the Roman Catholics of the terms '' protocanonical'' and the ancient term '' apocryphal''.
His work ''Bibliotheca sancta ex præcipuis Catholicæ Ecclesiæ auctoribus collecta''"Sacred library collected from the precepts of the authorities of the Catholic Church". (Venice 1566) treats the sacred writers and their works, the best manner of translating and explaining Holy Writ, and gives a copious list of Biblical interpreters, in eight books. It was the first of the genre of encyclopedic teaching repertories of dogma and Church tradition issued in the wake of the Council of Trent.
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Further reading
* John Warwick Montgomery, 1963. "Sixtus of Siena and Roman Catholic Biblical Scholarship", ''Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte'' 54 p. 214ff. * Fernando Dominguez, "Sixtus von Siena", in: ''Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche'' 3 IX, 647. * Elias H. Füllenbach, ''Bibel- und Hebräischstudien italienischer Dominikaner des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts'', in: ''Bibelstudium und Predigt im Dominikanerorden. Geschichte, Ideal, Praxis'', ed. by Viliam Stefan Doci und Thomas Prügl, Rome 2019 (= Dissertationes Historicae, vol. 36), p. 255-271.External links
"Franciscan scholars": Sixtus of Siena
* {{Authority control 1520 births 1569 deaths 16th-century Italian Jews 16th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians Italian Dominicans People convicted of heresy Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism People from Siena