Kemper, Johann
Kemper, Johann
a convert from Judaism, and professor of Hebrew and archaeology at Upqala, where he died in 1714, translated the New Test. into Hebrew,. with annotations. Under the title, , he wrote an apology of Christianity, based upon the famous cabalistic storehouse, the Zohar. A specimen was published under the title. Phosphorus Orthodoxae Fidei ex Pervetusto Libro Sohar Deprompta, by A. Norrel (Amsterdam, 1720). See Jocher. Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. “Krakowia;”‘ Delitzsch, Wissenschaft, Kunst, Judenthum, page 304 sq. (B.P.)