Airoli (or Ayrot1), Giacomo Maria, a Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator; b. at Genoa, 1660; d. in Rome, 27 March, 1721. He was professor of Hebrew in the Roman College, and later succeeded Cardinal Tolomei in the chair of controversy. His knowledge of Hebrew is shown by his Hebrew translation of a homily of Pope Clement XI. He is the author of a number of dissertations on Scriptural subjects, mostly chronological, which were highly thought of. Sommervogel enumerates fourteen, chief among which are: (1) ‘“ Dissertatio Biblica in quâ Scripturæ textus aliquot insigniores, adhibitis linguis hebræa, syriaca, chaldaica, arabica, greca, .. . dilucidantur” (Rome, 1704); (2) “Liber LXX hebdomadum resignatus, seu in cap. IX Danielis dissertatio” (Rome, 1713), several times reprinted; (3) “Dissertatio chronologica de anno, mense, et die mortis Domini Nostri Jesus Christi” (Rome, 1718).
A full list of his works is found in SOMMERVOGEL, Bibl, de la C. de J. (Paris, 1890), I, 717.
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