Neolatin héber átiratok?

Abstract

Despite the fact that Albert Molnár Szenci revised the Hungarian Bible translation on two occasions and translated the Geneva Psalms into Hungarian, there is a paucity of information about his knowledge of Hebrew. A survey of his studies and his Hebrew teachers reveals that he had the opportunity to learn the language thoroughly. Nevertheless, he did not become a writer of the 17th-century Hebrew Greeting Poems. It was previously hypothesized that these Hebrew poems were Hebrew transcriptions of poems originally written in Latin. Th e captions and poetic devices of these poems lend support to this hypothesis. However, a thorough examination of these poems, along with an existing bilingual poem, suggests that these carmina were originally composed in Hebrew.