Summary Robert Wakefield and his brother Thomas were pioneers in the study and teaching of Hebrew in early modern England. Robert was trained at Cambridge, acquired expertise in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Arabic, and obtained professorial status in Louvain, Cambridge, and Oxford. Thomas took possession of his brother's books and manuscripts upon his death; he enjoyed long tenure as praelector in Hebrew at Cambridge and was a compulsive annotator of his books. This volume draws together the political, linguistic, and bibliographical materials that shaped the careers of these two scholars, revising previous claims and producing a compelling analysis of Hebrew learning in sixteenth-century England. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abbreviations Preface 1 James P. Carley and Charles Burnett Introduction 2 James P. Carley Robert and Thomas Wakefield: A Biographical Sketch 3 Jessica Crown Robert Wakefield's Inaugural Orations in Context 4 Joanna Weinberg The Remarkable Hebraism of Robert Wakefield 5 Charles Burnett Robert Wakefield and Arabic 6 Richard Rex Robert Wakefield and the King's Great Matter 7 Saverio Campanini The ?Ezra Scroll? of Bologna in the Crossfire of the Royal Divorce: John Fisher, Robert Wakefield and an Erased Text 8 Judith Olszowy-Schlanger ?My Silent Teachers?: Hebrew Manuscripts as the Source of Robert Wakefield's Hebraism 9 James P. Carley Robert Wakefield's Manuscript Collections and the English Monastic Libraries: A Parallel to John Leland's Mission 10 James P. Carley Books Owned or Annotated by the Wakefield Brothers 11 Benjamin Williams ?Great Mountains Suspended from Every Single Letter?: Thomas Wakefield and His Hebrew Bibles 12 Herbert L. Kessler Thomas Wakefield's ?Antiquissimus Codex? and San Marco's Musivum Novissimum Appendix 1 David R. Carlson Robert Wakefield, ?Oratio Oxonii habita in Collegio Regio? (1532) Appendix 2 Joanna Weinberg A Hebrew Responsum about Levirate Marriage (1530) Bibliography Contributors Index of Manuscripts Indexes of Printed Books General Index