Note 17 — THE ESSENES.
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De Rossi, also called Asarja min Ha-Adomim, was born at Mantua in 1513, and died 1577. For an account of this eminent Jewish scholar, who may be regarded as the father of Biblical criticism at the time of the Reformation, see Dr. Alexander’s edition of Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, Article Rossi. ↑