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, the author became one of the most earnest apostles of Shabthai Tzvi. Even the apostasy of the pretended Messiah failed to shake Cuenque’s belief. The introduction of the present work presents an account of his 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