Samuel Bochart, Hierozoicon

Hierozoicon, sive bipertitum opus de animalibus Sacrae Scripturae (London 1663): the standard early-modern study of every animal in the Bible, in Latin with Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and much Arabic, and a main source for later work on the animals of the Bible and the Talmud. No modern translation exists. This pilot gives one chapter, in the edition of E. F. C. Rosenmüller (Leipzig 1793–96), as a machine transcription and English translation, to see what current tools can do with it.

Related: Lewysohn, Die Zoologie des Talmuds (1858) and the Talmud zoology fact-check (claim 7: the hyrax and the hare).

• Book 3, chapter 33: The shafanVol. 2, pp. 409–429 · cols. 1001–1017 of 1663 · שפן saphan is not the rabbit but a kind of larger mouse (the jerboa): Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources

What this is

• The transcription and the translation are machine output (Claude Opus 5.5). Every word where a second reader (Gemini Flash, the MDZ OCR) differs was judged on the scan, and the changes were read by eye; three pages (II, 410, 422, 428) were checked by hand.
• Bochart's citations: Bible references in modern form; classical references with Bochart's own book and chapter numbers; “p. 1012” in Rosenmüller's notes is a column of 1663.
• Abbreviations and names are identified from tables reviewed by hand (abbreviations, names); “general knowledge” or “guess” marks an identification that is not certain.
• Each page links to the scan: please check it before citing anything.
• Code, data, method and costs: github.com/EzraBrand/bochart-hierozoicon.