Airoli, Giacomo Maria

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Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator (1660-1721)

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A Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator; born at Genoa, 1660; died in Rome, 27 March, 1721. He was professor of Hebrew in the Roman College, and later succeeded Cardinal Tolomei in the chair of controversy. His knowledge of Hebrew is shown by his Hebrew translation of a homily of Pope Clement XI. He is the author of a number of dissertations on Scriptural subjects, mostly chronological, which were highly thought of. Sommervogel enumerates fourteen, chief among which are:

A full list of his works is found in SOMMERVOGEL, Bibl. de la C. de J. (Paris, 1890), I, 717.

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APA citation. Bechtel, F. (1907). Giacomo Maria Airoli. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01237b.htm

MLA citation. Bechtel, Florentine. "Giacomo Maria Airoli." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01237b.htm>.

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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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