A Lexicon to the Latin Text of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg 1688-1772

A Lexicon to the Latin Textof the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (16881772) by Dr. John Chadwick and Dr. Jonathan S. Rose is a unique specialist dictionary of fourteen thousand Neo-Latin words and their usages as contained in eighteenth-century theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Beyond its use for scholars of Swedenborg, the Lexicon is also of great assistance to students and academics of history, philosophy, theology and science, and anyone who encounters texts written in Neo-Latin (the branch of Latin that was in use by learned writers and thinkers from the Renaissance period through to the Enlightenment and beyond). TheLexicon is beautifully and simply designed and easy to navigate. In addition to a preface by editor John Chadwick, this edition also features a new introduction by Jonathan S. Rose containing an important section on the morphology of Swedenborg’s Neo-Latin (as distinct from the morphology of classical Latin); an appreciation of the life of John Chadwick by John Elliott; an appendix with a detailed listing of the various Latin editions of Swedenborg’s theological works; and an appendix on Swedenborg’s use of the Latin Bible of Sebastian Schmidt.

Dr. John Chadwick was a classical scholar who served as an editor on the Oxford Latin Dictionary and who is internationally renowned for his contribution to the decipherment of the ancient Minoan script, Linear B. He was also a fellow of theBritish Academy and ofDowning College, Cambridge. By the time of his retirement in 1984, he had become the fourth (and last)Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge. With Michael Ventris he publishedDocuments in Mycenaean Greek (1956) and "Evidence for Greek Dialect in the Mycenaean Archives" in The Journal of Hellenic Studies(1956). He also wrote The Decipherment of Linear B (1958) and The Mycenaean World (1976). For the Swedenborg Society he translated six of Swedenborg’s works, includingThe True Christian Religion and The Last Judgment.

Dr. Jonathan S. Rose is a prodigious translator of Swedenborg and the series editor of the New Century edition of Swedenborg’s works. Holder of a BA and a MDiv in religion and a MA and a PhD in Latin, he has worked for years in the study of Neo-Latin and in Swedenborgian research. For the Swedenborg Foundation he has translated True Christianity and has published numerous books and articles, includingSwedenborg’s Garden of Theology (2010). He was editor of and a contributor toEmanuel Swedenborg: Essays for the New Century Edition on His Life, Work, and Impact (2004).