Bible Encyclopedias
Possinus, Pierre

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a French Jesuit, was born at Narbonne in 1590. He was an excellent Hebrew and Greek scholar, and died at Rome towards the end of the 17th century. He published, Thesaurus Asceticus, etc. (Paris, 1684): — Collationes Isidoranae, etc. (Rome, 1670): — Nili Opera (1639): — Nili Epistolae (1657), etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:878, 880, 881,896, 897, 898; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)