Monday, February 02, 2009

Christian child prodigies with Hebrew knowledge, part I.

This is the first in a series of posts on Christian child prodigies who knew Hebrew. Although this first one has a rather legendary quality to it, the next post will be highly interesting and no legend.

As you can see, this account is from 1679, and concerns a three-year old child of Manchester named Charles Bennet, who "doth speak Latine, Greek and Hebrew, though never taught those Languages; and answers all Questions relating to the Bible, &c., in a wonderful manner."

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