Maimonides in Latin
During the Reformation, Protestant scholars began delving into the Bible in order to find a template for a sacred political constitution. They soon realized that they would not be able to delve deeper into the teachings of the book without the help of the extensive Hebrew literature.
These scholars, called the Hebraists, "summoned" the greatest writers of the Jewish people throughout the ages to provide answers to the many questions that arose in their minds while reading the Bible. To this end, many Protestant scholars began to translate the central works of Jewish religious literature. Thus, for the first time in history, the Talmud (both the Babylonian and Jerusalemite), the Midrash, the Zohar, the writings of Maimonides, the Mishneh and many dozens of books were translated into various European languages: Latin, English, German and more. In 1638, the Latin translation of the Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah was printed alongside the original Hebrew source in Amsterdam.
