Nomologia o Discursos Legales

ABOAB, IMMANUEL

n.p.

(Amsterdam)

1629

FIRST EDITION. Latin interspersed with Hebrew. Title within type-ornament border. Incipits, headpiece and tailpiece. On p. 139, graphic of Tabernacle in the Desert

Kayserling, p. 2

Immanuel Aboab (1555-1628) was born into a New Christian family in Porto, Portugal. He escaped to Italy where he professed the Jewish faith and became a protagonist of Judaism among the Marranos. Toward the end of his life he settled in Jerusalem where he died The Nomologia, his principle work, is a defense of the validity and Divine origin of the Jewish tradition. “Displaying a wide knowledge of Talmud and Kabbalah as well as Latin and secular learning, [the work] includes much valuable historical information, especially concerning scholars who left Spain and Portugal after the Expulsion.” EJ, II cols. 89-90