Scholarship on Martin Seidel’s Origo et fundamenta religionis Christianae (c.1590) has stressed its ‘proto-deistic’ character as well as its role in the prehistory of the research on the historical Jesus. But Seidel’s skills as biblical philologist and translator, which surface in his abundant Latin quotations from the Bible, also deserve attention. A preliminary analysis, based on his translation of Isaiah 52–53, has suggested Seidel’s engagement with the Antwerp Polyglot and his probable knowledge of other sixteenth-century Latin translations of the Bible. This paper aims at verifying and qualifying these preliminary results by extending the analysis to Seidel’s quotations from the New Testament., El presente trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto Biblia latina e historiografía eclesiástica: edición y
estudio de textos (PID2020-114729GB-I00), financiado por MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033., Peer reviewed

This paper has been carried out as part of the research project “Biblia latina e historiografía
eclesiástica: edición y estudio de textos” (PID2020-114729GB-I00), funded by the Spanish MICIU/
AEI/10.13039/501100011033., Peer reviewed