- Immanuel Aboab
Immanuel Aboab (born in
Oporto , Portugal, about 1555; died atVenice in 1628) was a Portuguese Jewish scholar. He was a great-grandson ofIsaac Aboab (died 1493).Life
He early became an orphan and was reared by his grandfather
Abraham Aboab . He emigrated to Italy, and after living some time atPisa he moved toCorfu , where he became acquainted withHorazio del Monte , a nephew of theduke of Urbino .In
Reggio he became acquainted withMenahem Azaria de Fano ; thence he went toSpoleto and elsewhere in Italy, and finally settled at Venice. Here he had occasion, in 1603, to defend his coreligionists, in the presence of an exalted commission, against malicious accusations, and he proved that the Jews had never lacked the courage to make the sacrifices on behalf of the country that protected them.Works
Aboab had the intention of going to Palestine and publishing there his works, "The Kingdom of the Intellect" and "The Foundations of Truth," which he had written in defense of the Talmud. He was the author of a defense of the traditional law and of a chronological list of that law's exponents. He worked at this treatise, which was much prized by the pious, for ten years, and completed it in 1625. It was published by his heirs at Amsterdam, in 1629 (2d ed., ibid., 1727), under the title, "Nomologia o Discursos Legales, Compuestos por el Virtuose Hakam Rabi Imanuel Aboab de Buena Memoria." A manuscript of this work exists in the library of the Historical Academy in Madrid.
References
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De Rossi , "Dizionario Storico", Germ. transl. by Hamberger, pp. 12-13
*Kayserling , "Immanuel Aboab", in Jeschurun, iv. 572 et seq., v. 643 et seq.; idem, Gesch. d. Juden in Port. pp. 271 et seq.External links
* [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=344&letter=A#808 Source]
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