Isaac Abendana

Isaac Abendana (c. 1640 - 1710 ) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana , ''haham'' ( Rabbi ) of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London . Isaac Abendana moved to England before his brother, in 1662 , and taught Hebrew at Cambridge University . He completed an unpublished Latin translation of the Mishnah for the university in 1671 .

While he was at Cambridge, Abendana sold Hebrew books to the Bodleian Library of Oxford , and in 1689 he took a teaching position in Magdalen College . In Oxford, he wrote a series of Jewish Almanac s for Christians, which he later collected and compiled as the '' Discourses On The Ecclesiastical And Civil Polity Of The Jews '' ( 1706 ). Like his brother, he maintained an extensive correspondence with leading Christian scholars of his time, most notably with the philosopher Ralph Cudworth , master of Christ's College, Cambridge .

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	spanish and portuguese jews

	1710 deaths

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