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| | Johann Leusden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Johann Leusden (sometimes also called Jan, John, or Johannes Leusden) (April 26, 1624 - September 30, 1699) was a Dutch Calvinist theologian and orientalist. |
 | | Leusden was one of the most prominent Bible experts of his time, and wrote several works about the Bible and about Hebrew philology (Philologus Hebraeus, 1656; Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus, 1663; Philologus Hebraeo-Latino-Belgicum, 1668; Philologus Hebraeo-Graecus, 1670; Korte Hebreusche en Chaldeusche taalkonst, 1686). |
 | | In 1660, together with the Amsterdam rabbi and book printer Joseph Athias, he published his Biblia Hebraica, the first edition of the Hebrew Bible with numbered verses. |
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