Avak Sopherim [Biblical homilies and sermons]

CUENQUE, ABRAHAM.

Nathaniel Foa

Amsterdam

1704

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. Title within architectural arch

Vinograd, Amsterdam 769

A native of Hebron in the second half of the seventeenth-century, Conque became one of the most earnest apostles of Shabthai Tzvi, even the apostasy of the pretended Messiah failed to shake Conque’s belief. The introduction of the present work presents an account of the Author’s travels throughout Europe ostensibly to raise funds for the destitute of the Holy Land, but in actuality in order to win adherents to the Sabbathian Movement