Jean Mercier (Hebraist)

Jean Mercier, Latin Joannes Mercerus (Uzès ca. 1510 – 1570) was a French Hebraist.

Front page of the Procheiron or Hexabiblos of Constantine Harmenopoulos(1320 - 1380/1385), Lyon 1587 edition by Jean Mercier, translated to Latin from Byzantine Greek.

He was a pupil of the less known François Vatable, and succeeded Vatable as professor of Hebrew at the Collège Royal.[1] His students included Philippe du Plessis-Mornay, Zacharius Ursinus, Andrew Melville, and Pierre Martinius who became professor at La Rochelle.[2][3] Mercier was Lecteur du Roi from 1546 onwards.[4]

He fled to Venice because of his sympathies with Protestantism, but returned to France and died of the plague.

Works
  • Aramaic grammar Tabulae in grammaticen linguae Chaldaeae (Paris, 1560)
  • De notis Hebraeorum liber (1582), revised by Jean Cinqarbres
  • Commentary on Genesis (Geneva, posthumous 1598), published by Théodore de Bèze

Translations

  • Bishop Jean du Tillet's Italian manuscript of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (Paris, 1555)
  • Translation of Constantine Harmenopoulos Hexabiblos or Procheiron (Lyons, 1556, reprinted in 1580, 1587)
  • Talmudic selections: Libellus de abbreviaturis Hebraeorum, tam Talmudicorum quam Masoritarum et aliorum rabbinorum (Paris, 1561)
  • Hebrew Jonah with commentary of David Kimchi Jonas cum commentariis R. David Kimhi (1567)
  • Translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the Ten Commandments (Lyons, ca. 1567)
  • Notes to Santes Pagnini's Oẓar Leshon ha-Kodesh (Lyons, 1575)
  • Translation of Targum Jonathan on the Prophets

References
  1. Godfrey Edmond Silverman Encyclopedia Judaica Mercier, Jean°
  2. Herzog, Johann Jakob; Hauck, Albert; Jackson, Samuel Macauley; Sherman, Charles Colebrook; Gilmore, George William (1912). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing Biblical, Historical, Doctrinal, and Practical Theology and Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Biography from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. Funk and Wagnalls Company.
  3. Denlinger, Aaron Clay (2014-11-20). Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland: Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-567-61230-4.
  4. Michel Bideaux Les échanges entre les universités européennes à la Renaissance
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