Judah Leon Templo

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Judah Leon Templo
Jacob Judah Leon, Engraving by Salom Italia, 1641
Personal
Born1603
Buarcos, Portugal
Diedafter 1675
ReligionJudaism

Jacob Judah Leon Templo (1603 – after 1675) was a Jewish Dutch scholar, translator of the Psalms, and expert on heraldry, of Sephardic descent.

Biography

Jaco Judah Leon was the son of

Manasseh ben Israel, with the anonymous collaboration of Adam Boreel
.

Jacob Judah Leon’s description. In Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
, Architectura civil recta y obliqua, Vol. III. Part I, Plate A.

Jacob caused a great stir by a plan, drawn by him, of

Helmstädt
. Someone else published such a translation in 1665, and Saubert therefore wrote a Latin translation in that year. An English version appeared in 1778, done by Moses Pereira de Castro, his great grand son, the son of Isaac Pereira de Castro and Lea DeLeon, the daughter of his son Abraham, and in whose possession the plan was then held.

In 1647 Jacob wrote Tratado de la Arca del Testamento (Amsterdam, 1653). His treatise on the

Queen Christina of Sweden
, and was praised by many ḥakamim, scholars, and poets in Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish verses.

Jacob wrote also a dialogue (Colloquium Middelburgense) between a rabbi and a Christian scholar on the value of the Christian dogmas; and he left in manuscript Disputaciones con Diferentes Theologos de la Cristiandad.

He was a skilful draftsman. The coat of arms of the

Surenhusius
for his Latin translation of the Mishnah.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Some Sephardic Jews in Freemasonry". Leon Zeldis. 9 October 2008.
  • Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi-C. H. Hamberger, Hist. Wörterb. pp. 176 et seq.;
  • Koenen, Geschiedenis der Joden in Nederland, p. 337;
  • Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums und Seiner Sekten, iii. 233;
  • Heinrich Grätz
    , Gesch. x. 24, 200 et seq.;
  • Transaction Jew. Hist. Soc. Eng. ii. 156 et seq.;
  • Julius Fürst, Bibl. Jud. ii. 232 et seq.;
  • Meyer Kayserling, Bibl. Esp.-Port.-Jud. pp. 58 et seq.
  • Offenberg, Adri K., “Bibliography of the Works of Jacob Jehuda Leon (Templo), Studia Rosenthaliana, 12/XII Nos. 1-2, (July 1978), pp. 111-132.
  • Offenberg, Adri K., “Jacob Jehuda Leon (1602-1675) and his Model of the Temple,” in Johannes van den Berg and Ernestine G. E. vand der Wall (eds.), Jewish-Christian Relations in the Seventeenth Century: Studies and Documents, Dordrech, 1988, pp. 95–115.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Leon (Leão)". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

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