Originally printed in Rome in 1668 in Latin and Hebrew, and then reprinted in Prague in 1746 with added translations of the entire New Testament in German and Yiddish. Another interesting aspect is that the book is printed from right to left like a Jewish book.

This very rare New Testament was a collaborative effort by both Christian and Jewish scholars in the mid 18th century Hapsburg Empire.

According to scholar Seth Schwartz, “The original edition, which included only the Hebrew translation, was produced in Rome in the 1600s; Giambattista Iona, the translator, was clearly a Jewish convert to Christianity. The Prague updating, adding translations into the “vernaculars of the Christians and Jews” (meaning German and Yiddish) was indubitably also produced by Jewish converts to Christianity. The intention of the volume is clearly evangelical rather than scholarly.”