Theology of Abraham Bibago: A Defense of Divine Will, Knowledge, and Providence in the Fifteenth Century Spanish Jewish Philosophy (Judaic Studies Series) - Hardcover

Lazaroff, Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0817369066 ISBN 13: 9780817369064

Publisher: University of Alabama, 1981

Synopsis

BIBAGO, ABRAHAM BEN SHEM TOV (15th century), Spanish scholar, religious philosopher, commentator on Aristotelian works, and preacher. His name is also spelled Bivach. Bibago was born in the province of Aragon. He first resided in Huesca, where, in his youth, he completed a commentary on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, and where there is reference to his having a wife and children (1446). Bibago seems to have been forced out of his community; in his own words, "for they suspected me for my studying the books of the Greeks … and I was wandering and alone, away from my land and the place of my desire, exiled among the nations." Bibago presumably outgrew or overcame his reputation as a radical. In 1465 he participated in the conversion of a Maranno in Huesca. He later settled in Saragossa, where he was head of the yeshivah (c. 1470), and preached publicly on Sabbaths and festivals. He engaged in numerous disputations with Christian scholars at the court of Juan II, king of Aragon, on the Trinity and other Christian tenets, and for this reason kept abreast of Christian theology and scholastic philosophy. He died before the Inquisition's trial and execution in 1489 of the participants in the Huesca conversion years before, including Bibago's brother Isaac, a physician.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Alabama
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817369066
• ISBN 13: 9780817369064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192