A Cambridge University Greek Textbook at Harvard College in 1642

Vozar, Thomas Matthew

doi:10.1162/tneq_a_00973

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March 01 2023

A Cambridge University Greek Textbook at Harvard College in 1642

Thomas Matthew Vozar

Thomas Matthew Vozar is an Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His first book, Abstracted Sublimities: Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and he is currently at work on a second book entitled Polemical Erudition: Scholarship and Politics in the English Revolution.

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Thomas Matthew Vozar

Thomas Matthew Vozar is an Excellence Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hamburg. His first book, Abstracted Sublimities: Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and he is currently at work on a second book entitled Polemical Erudition: Scholarship and Politics in the English Revolution.

^* I am very grateful to Jonathan Chu and the journal's anonymous readers for their suggestions and to Zahra Garrett of Harvard's Houghton Library for providing images of and information about the library's two copies of Duport's Job. This research was undertaken as part of the project Scholarship and Politics in the English Revolution, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2023

The New England Quarterly

The New England Quarterly (2023) 96 (1): 64–73.

https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00973

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This paper considers a Homeric paraphrase of the Book of Job by James Duport, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, as the earliest known Greek textbook in use at the newly founded Harvard College, as recorded in New England's First Fruits (1643).

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The New England Quarterly

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