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Isaac Ben Mattathiah Aboab
Rabbi Isaac ben Mattathiah Aboab (Hebrew language, Hebrew: רבי יצחק בן מתתיה אבוהב; d. 1720) also known as Isaac Aboab V an early 18th-century rabbinic scholar and hakam of the Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam), Portuguese congregation in Amsterdam. Born around 1650 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His father Mattathiah Aboab was a representative of the congregation Bet Jacob. Mattathiah was a cousin and contemporary of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, Isaac da Fonseca Aboab and often confounded with him. In his early years Aboab became a friend of the learned William Surenhuysius. Later writing a book of exhortation and admonition for his son, which appeared at Amsterdam, in 1687, under the title "''Exortação Paraque os Tementes do Senhor na Observança dos Preceitos de sua S. Ley''." A number of his works exist in manuscript, among them a genealogy of the Aboab family and a "''Comedia de la Vida y Successos de Josseph''." He died about 1720 at Amsterdam.{{Cite web, title=ABOAB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Language
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved throughout history as the main liturgical language of Judaism (since the Second Temple period) and Samaritanism. Hebrew is the only Canaanite language still spoken today, and serves as the only truly successful example of a dead language that has been revived. It is also one of only two Northwest Semitic languages still in use, with the other being Aramaic. The earliest examples of written Paleo-Hebrew date back to the 10th century BCE. Nearly all of the Hebrew Bible is written in Biblical Hebrew, with much of its present form in the dialect that scholars believe flourished around the 6th century BCE, during the time of the Babylonian captivity. For this reason, Hebrew has been referred to by Jews as '' Lashon Hakodesh'' (, ) since an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
