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Immanuel Aboab ( 1555 – 1628) was a Portuguese Jewish scholar. He was a great-grandson of Isaac Aboab of Castile (died 1493).
Aboab had the intention of going to
Link to digitised text of ''Nomologia''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aboab, Immanuel 1550s births 1628 deaths Jewish Portuguese writers 16th-century Portuguese rabbis 16th-century Italian rabbis People from Porto 17th-century Italian rabbis
Life
Born at Porto, he early became an orphan and was reared by his grandfatherAbraham Aboab
Rav Abraham Aboab (Hebrew: אברהם אבוהב; 1263) was a 13th century Spanish Jewish aristocrat and founder of the Aboab family. Possibly born in Pelof, Aragon, not much is known of his early life. It seems that Aboab developed a very cl ...
. He emigrated to Italy, and after living some time at Pisa
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he moved to Corfu
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, where he became acquainted with Orazio del Monte, a nephew of the duke of Urbino.
In Reggio Emilia
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he became acquainted with Menahem Azariah da Fano; thence he went to Spoleto and elsewhere in Italy, and finally settled at Venice. Here he had occasion, in 1603, to defend his correligionists.
He died in Venice in 1628.
Works
Aboab had the intention of going to Palestine
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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
* De Rossi, ''Dizionario Storico'', Germ. transl. by Hamberger, pp. 12–13 *Kayserling Kayserling is a German surname, which means "emperor's follower" or "little emperor", from the terms ''kaysar'' (meaning kaiser or emperor) and the diminutive suffix ''-ling'', meaning a smaller version of or a follower. Related names include Kayser ...
, ''Immanuel Aboab'', in Jeschurun, iv. 572 et seq., v. 643 et seq.;
* idem, Gesch. d. Juden in Port. pp. 271 et seq.
* Orfali, Moises, ''Imanuel Aboab's Nomologia o discursos legales - The Struggle over the Authority of the Law'': Jerusalem 1997
* Roth, Cecil. “Immanuel Aboab’s Proselytization of the Marranos.” JQR 23(1932-33): pg. 121-62.
External links
Link to digitised text of ''Nomologia''
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