Mario Javier Saban

Mario Javier Saban

Born	12 February 1966(1966-02-12) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Main interests	Origins of Christianity, Jewish philosophy
Influenced by Maimonides, Nahmanides, Elijah Benamozegh, Martin Buber

Mario Javier Saban (Buenos Aires, 1966), is an Argentinean theologian of Sephardi origin.

Saban’s family descends from Spanish Jews sheltered in the Ottoman Empire in 1492. In 1987 he began his historical investigations about the Jewish origins of the Argentina's traditional families. His first work, Converted Jews (1990), became a best-seller.

In year 2002 he migrated to Spain, where he published his book The Judaism of Saint Paul (2003).

On June 2007 he founded the organization Tarbut Sefarad[1], which he presides. In March 2008 he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy by the Complutense University of Madrid. In June of the same year he published his doctoral thesis that titled Rambam, the genius of Moses Maimonides, that is based on his deep study of the Guide for the Perplexed. In September 2008 he published his eleventh work, The Judaism of Jesus, which is an extensive work dedicated to the Jesus doctrine and its natural relation with the Judaism. One of the Saban's books was translated to English, and it is entitled The Jewish roots of Christianity.

Published works

• Judíos conversos (1990).
• Los hebreos nuestros hermanos mayores or Judíos conversos II (1991).
• Los marranos y la economía en el Rio de la Plata or Judíos conversos III (1992).
• Mil preguntas y respuestas sobre el judaísmo español y portugués (1993).
• Las raíces judías del cristianismo (1994).
• El judaísmo de San Pablo (La matriz judía del cristianismo I, 2003).
• El sábado hebreo en el cristianismo (La matriz judía del cristianismo II, 2004).
• La matriz intelectual del judaísmo y la génesis de Europa (2005).
• La cronología del pensamiento judío (2007).
• Rambam, el genio de Maimónides (Doctoral thesis, 2008).
• El judaísmo de Jesús (2008).

See also

The Guide for the Perplexed

Jesus

Saint Paul

External links

• Mario Saban's official page
• Tarbut Sefarad home page
• Amazon.com

Rerefences

• Saban, Mario Javier: El judaísmo de Jesús, Saban Editorial, Buenos Aires, 2008.

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Name	Saban, Mario Javier
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Date of birth	12 February 1966
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
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