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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Abrabanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Samuel Abravanel, youngest son of Isaac Abravanel, and grandson of Judah; was born in 1473, at Lisbon.
		ABRABANEL, ISAAC, called also ABRAVANEL, ABARBANEL (1437-1508), Jewish statesman, philosopher, theologian and commentator, was born at Lisbon of an ancient family which claimed descent from the royal house of David.
		Isaac Abrabanel (1437, Lisbon - 1508, Venice) was a Jewish statesman, apologist and exegete.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Abrabanel (977 words)

	Isaac Abrabanel - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Abrabanel, Isaac (1437-1508), Jewish statesman, philosopher, and theologian, born in Lisbon.
		Abrabanel, Judah León, also called Leo Hebreus (1460?-1523?), Jewish physician and philosopher.
		Isaac (Hebrew, “laughter”), biblical patriarch, the son of Abraham, half brother of Ishmael, and father of Jacob and Esau.
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	Isaac Abrabanel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Don Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel (Hebrew: יצחק בן יהודה אברבנאל) was a Jewish statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier.
		The Abravanel family (also Abarbanel and Abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished Jewish Iberian families; they trace their origin from the biblical King David.
		It is said also that Ferdinand hesitated, but was prevented from accepting the offer by Torquemada, the grand inquisitor, who dashed into the royal presence and, throwing a crucifix down before the king and queen, asked whether, like Judas, they would betray their Lord for money.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Abrabanel (1292 words)

	Don Isaac Abrabanel
		The favour shown by a Catholic prince to a Jew shocked the public opinion of those times, and under John II Abrabanel was accused of conspiring with the Duke of Braganza, and barely saved his life by fleeing to Castile, 1483.
		As a theologian and apologist Abrabanel shows himself a champion of the most rigid Jewish orthodoxy, and does not hesitate to oppose even Maimonides when the latter seems to depart from the traditional belief.
		In the field of Biblical exegesis, Abrabanel has the merit of having anticipated much of what has been advanced as new by modern investigators, and of having considered systematically not only the letter of the sacred text, but also the persons of its authors, their aim and surroundings.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/abrabanel,don_isaac.html (556 words)

	ISAAC ABRABANEL - LoveToKnow Article on ISAAC ABRABANEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the death of Alphonso in 1481, his counsellors and favorites were harshly treated by his successor John, and Abrabanel was compelled to flee to Spain, where he held for eight years (1484-1492) the post of a minister of state under Ferdinand and Isabella.
		Abrabanel often quotes Christian authorities, though he opposed Christian exegesis of Messianic passages.
		He was one of the first to see that for Biblical exegesis it was necessary to reconstruct the social environment of olden times, and he skilfully applied his practical knowledge of statecraft to the elucidation of the books of Samuel and Kings.
	78.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AB/ABRABANEL_ISAAC.htm (254 words)

	Judah Abrabanel
		Abrabanel's magnum opus, the Dialoghi d'amore (“Dialogues of Love”) belongs to the genre of the trattato d'amore (“treatise on love”) that was intimately connected to both the Renaissance and the development of the Italian vernacular.
		Despite his favorable relationship with them, Isaac was unable to influence them to rescind their famous edict of expulsion – calling on all Jews who refused to convert to Christianity – to depart from the Iberian Peninsula.
		Abrabanel's emphasis, like that of many of his Renaissance contemporaries, on aesthetics and the phenomenal world would eventually become an important dimension of 16th- and 17th -century natural philosophy.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/abrabanel (7256 words)

	Rabbi Don Yitzchak ben Judah Abrabanel ZT"L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The biblical exegete Isaac Ben Judah, born in Lisbon in 1437 CE.
		Inasmuch as Isaac Abarbanel had lived in friendly relations with the Duke of Braganza and his brothers, King Joao chose to suspect him of having been implicated in the recent conspiracies.
		Abrabanel's biblical commentaries are notable for their interpretation of the books of the Bible in terms of their various historical and social backgrounds and for their liberal quotations from Christian commentaries.
	www.sephardiccouncil.org /sages/harav-don.html (2288 words)

	Abrabanel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Isaac Abrabanel (Don Yitzchaq Abrabanel), "Abrabanel" is variously sometimes realized as Avravanel, Abravanel, and Abarbanel), (1437–1508) was born in Lisbon, Portugal.
		His riches exhausted, he died, in what he himself described as "exile", in 1508, in Venice, Italy.
		The Orthodox Union's (http://www.ou.org) Leaders of our People (http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/) page on Abrabanel (http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/rabbis/abrabanel.htm).
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Abrabanel (236 words)

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		For the head of notables' delegation Jews, Don Isaac Abravanel, received several times in audience by the Spanish sovereigns, tried, but vainly, to make Isabelle return and Ferdinand on their decision.
		he realm of Naples having finally fallen in hands of the Spaniards, the gift (donation) Isaac was resolved into 1503 to join in Venice his (her) son Joseph, who exercised the medicine there.
		In the confluence of the neo-Platonic school of Florence (Marsile Ficin, Peak of Mirandole) and big currents of the medieval Jewish philosophy (Maïmonide, Ibn Gabirol) the outcome of which it is, its uvre major, Dialoghi of amore, written in Italian, was published after her death (1535).
	www.maurice-abravanel.com /isaack_abrabanel_more.html (952 words)

	Judah Leon Abravanel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judah Leon Abravanel (or Abrabanel, otherwise known as: in Latin, Leo Hebraeus; in Portughese, Leão Hebreu; in Spanish, León Hebreo; in Italian, Leone Ebreo; in English, Leo the Hebrew; and in Hebrew, יהודה בן יצחק אברבנאל [Yehuda ben Yitzhak Abravanel]) (c.
		Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Judah Abravanel accompanied his father, Isaac Abravanel, when the latter went to Spain (1483), and afterward to Naples (1492); there in 1505 he became physician in ordinary to the Spanish captain-general Gonsalvo of Cordova.
		From there he went to Genoa and later to Venice, where he finally settled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judah_Abravanel (301 words)

	Abrabanel Isaac - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Abrabanel Isaac - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Isaac (Hebrew, “laughter”), Old Testament patriarch, the son of Abraham, half-brother of Ishmael, and father of Jacob and Esau.
		Though born in Flanders, Isaac pursued his career solely in Italian and German courts.
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	* * * El Huerto del Nogal * * * - Biografías - Isaac Abrabanel
		Isaac ben Iehuda Abrabanel nació en Lisboa, Portugal en 1437.
		Abrabanel es más conocido por su destacada labor en el área financiera y diplomática.
		Abrabanel aceptó el cargo, no sólo por su experiencia en finanzas sino porque su cercanía con Fernando podría ser útil para proteger a los judíos de Torquemada.
	www.elhuertodelnogal.com.ar /biografiaabrabanel.htm (508 words)

	Isaac Abrabanel: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Don Isaac ben Judah or Yitzchak ben Yehuda Abravanel was a Jew Jew quick summary:
		The word jew (hebrew:) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the jewish faith, a child...
		The abravanel family (also abarbanel or abrabanel) is one of the oldest and most distinguished jewish spanish families; they trace their origin from...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/isaac_abrabanel.htm (2502 words)

	ABRABANEL, ISAAC - Online Information article about ABRABANEL, ISAAC
		ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)
		ISAAC, called also ABRAVANEL, ABARBANEL (1437-15o8), Jewish statesman, philosopher, theologian and commentator, was See also:
		When the Jews were banished-from Spain in 1492, no exception was made in Abrabanel's favour.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /A10_ADA/ABRABANEL_ISAAC.html (438 words)

	Isaac Abrabanel
		Los Abrabanel, fueron una antigua familia judía de Sevilla que al inicio de las persecuciones en 1391 tuvieron que emigrar a Portugal, aunque problemas ulteriores en ese país obligaron de nuevo a la familia Abrabanel a atravesar la frontera (1483) en sentido inverso.
		En esos intentos participará principalmente Isaac Abrabanel, aunque será en vano.
		Isaac Abrabanel abandonó con su familia España en julio de 1492, no sin antes hacerse intentos de convencerlo mediante presiones para que recibiera el bautismo.
	www.proel.org /traductores/abrabanel.html (368 words)

	Society : Philosophy : Philosophers : A : Abravanel, Isaac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biography: Isaac Abrabanel - Concise summary of his life, from the Jewish Theological Seminary.
		Don Isaac Abravanel - Detailed information on the careers of this Jewish scholar and his son, from Maurice Abravanel.
		The Alhambra Decree and Abrabanel's Answer - English-language text of the infamous 1492 edict expelling the Jews from Spain, and Isaac Abrabanel's reply.
	www.webguest.com /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/A/Abravanel,_Isaac (148 words)

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		Juda Abravanel Yehuda Abrabanel ben Ishaq, known in French under the name of Land#233;on l' Hand#233;breu, in Italian Leone Ebreo Philosophe, doctor and...
		Abrabanel (1437-1508) said earlier: andamp;quot;This is also the opinion of our own learned men in the majority of their Midrashim.andamp;quot;...
		Translation of this 1503 writing by Abrabanel, in anticipation of his son joining him in Italy.
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	Kestenbaum & Company
		Many of the highly desirable works commanded premium prices well above their pre-sale estimates due in part to the fact that they were in excellent condition and fresh to the market, having been housed at Jews' College, London since the mid nineteenth century.
		Among the highlights of the book section was a rare compilation of the first editions of three important works of Don Isaac Abrabanel dated 1505.
		Isaac Abrabanel was pre-expulsion, Spanish Jewery's premier philosopher and statesman.
	www.kestenbaum.net /docs/hi_1202.htm (890 words)

	dvartorah
		For Abrabanel, this question was particularly poignant since he personally experienced the expulsions from both Portugal and Spain.
		Abrabanel was unaware that the book of Isaiah was probably, at least, two prophetic books combined, the first part of the book from the pre-exilic period of the kings while the second portion of the book, where these verses are found, was probably composed during the period of the return from Babylonian exile.
		Abrabanel, however, sought to contend with this question in a manner that would be relevant to his own audience.
	www.uscj.org.il /haftarah/kitetze5764.html (583 words)

	Isaac Abrabanel par Robert Corcos
		Abrabanel se fonde principalement sur les prophéties de Daniel.
		* Abrabanel distingue trois périodes: Une période où sa venue est impossible, une deuxième période où elle dépend du mérite du peuple et une troisième inéluctable.
		Abrabanel attend le prochain effondrement du monde comme un événement inéluctable.
	www.harissa.com /D_Religion/isaacabarbanel.htm (1311 words)

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		Pirke Avot, one of the 63 tractates of the Mishnah, its six chapters, a rich depository of Rabbinic wisdom and a time hallowed guide to Jewish living and ethics, are read one chapter on every Shabbat throughout the summer months.
		A digest of Rabbi Don Isaac Abrabanel's Nahalat Avot with selections from other classical commentaries on Pirkei Avot.
		Rabbi Abrabanel was a fifteenth-century statesman, philosopher and author of many works including his celebrated commentary on the entire Bible.
	www.stockmaven.com /ethics.htm (937 words)

	Notes to Judah Abrabanel
		Of particular interest is Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) a contemporary of Judah Abrabanel, and someone who also wrote an important dialogue of love.
		For a more specific discussion of Don Isaac Abrabanel, see Eric Lawee, Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001) and Seymour Feldman, Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel, Defender of the Faith (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
		In contrast, he claims, quite plausibly, that Judah Abrabanel's source is al-Batalyawsi, perhaps as received from his father's commentary to Genesis, or from Yohanan Alemanno.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/abrabanel/notes.html (1750 words)

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		English-language text of the infamous 1492 edict expelling the Jews from Spain, and Isaac Abrabanel's reply.
		Isaac ben Judah Abravanel: Statesman, Financier, and Biblic
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