ABRAHAM BEN SHABBETAI HA-KOHEN
- ABRAHAM BEN SHABBETAI HA-KOHEN
- ABRAHAM BEN SHABBETAI HA-KOHEN (1670–1729), poet, physician,
artist, and philosopher. Born in Crete when the island was under
Venetian rule, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of
Padua and then practiced on the island of Zante. He was the author of
Kehunnat Avraham (Venice, 1719), a paraphrase of portions of
Psalms in rhymed verse in various meters, to which was appended
Benei Keturah, a similar paraphrase of Pirkei
Shirah. The title page of the book is followed by an engraved
self-portrait of the author, who was also probably responsible for other
engravings in the book. He also published a volume of homilies on the
Pentateuch, Kevod Ḥakhamim (Venice, 1700).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Ghirondi-Neppi, 32, no. 76; A. Rubens, Jewish Iconography
(1954), no.
2006.
(Cecil Roth)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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