Sixtin Amama

, was born in the Province of Westsricsin in Holland, educated for a time in the University in Franaker, where obtaining considerable knowledge in Oriental tongues, took a journey into England, and about 1613. setled in Oxford, taught the Hebrew tongue, and for the sake of Dr. Prideaux Rector of Exeter coll. whose person and doctrine he much admired, became a Sojournour of that house, and a zealous Student in the Sacred Faculty. After he had continued there some years, he retired ( [〈◊〉] a degree conser’d on him,) to his native Country, where at Franaker he was made Hebrew Profess [〈…〉] length D. of D. and held much in esteem for his great learning. He hath written,

[〈…〉] quinque librorum Mosis, &c. Franak. 1620. qu.

Supplex [〈◊〉] ad Synodos, Episcopos & Super-intendentes [〈…〉] .

[〈…〉] Franak. 1625. oct.

Coron, ad Gram. Martino-Buxto [•] sianum. Ibid.

Anti-Barbarus Biblicus in 3. libros distributus, &c. Amstel. 1628. oct. To which was added a fourth book.— Franak. 1656. qu.

De Decimis. In the first Tome of the Criticks, p. 1326.

Responsio ad censuras D. Marini Marsenni Theologi Paris. Franak. 1628. oct. See in the first Tome of the Criticks, p. lx.

De nomine Tetragrammato dissertatio, cum responsione ad argumenta cl. viri D. Nich. Fulleri Angli, quibus pro vulgatae lectionis Jehovah certitudine disputavit. Fran. 1628. oct.

He hath also written the Preface before Joh. Drusius his Commentary on the more difficult places of the Pentateuch, an. 1617. which is remitted into the first Tome of the Criticks, p. 50. and corrected and published with some additions his Commentary on the 12 Minor Prophets, and his Com. de Sectis Judaicis. He hath also written and published certain Dissertations and Orations in Latin, but these I have not yet seen. He was living and in great renown at Franaker in sixteen hundred twenty and eight,Clar: 1628. having then, as always before, a natural Genie to enlighten the Text of Scripture, and to find the notion of the Sacred Language. When he died, and what other books he hath written, I cannot yet tell.