MAKE A MEME View Large Image De Termino Vitae.jpg en Tzeror ha-Hayyim De termino vitae libri tres Rabbinical expositions on the span of human life Menasseh ben Israel Amsterdam 1639 In the late 1630's Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657 the famed Amsterdam Rabbi author and ...
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Keywords: De Termino Vitae.jpg en Tzeror ha-Hayyim De termino vitae libri tres Rabbinical expositions on the span of human life Menasseh ben Israel Amsterdam 1639 In the late 1630's Menasseh ben Israel 1604-1657 the famed Amsterdam Rabbi author and printer wrote a series of works in Latin on various theological problems all printed at Amsterdam ”De Creatione 1635 De Resurrectione Mortuorum 1635 and the present work De Termino Vitæ 1639 Here Menasseh lays stress on the universality of salvation and on the freedom of man Menasseh explained the Jewish viewpoint on the span of human life first part the possibility of extending life second part and the compatibility of human freedom with God's foreknowledge third part In addition Menasseh records autobiographical information unmentioned in any of his other works including his father's imprisonment and torture by the Spanish Inquisition and the family's successful quest for safe haven in the Netherlands Menasseh also refers to his teacher Rabbi Isaac Uziel his marriage to Rachel Abravanel his two sons Samuel and Joseph and his daughter Gracia and his brother Ephraim whom he sent to Brazil pp 236-7 As demonstrated by Hausherr Menasseh assisted Rembrandt with the interpretation of a dramatic scene from the Book of Daniel 5 1-30 portrayed most famously in Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast of about 1635 hanging in the National Gallery London In this monumental painting the prophecy of Belshazzar's demise inscribed by a mysterious hand the warning 'Mene Mene Tekel u-Farsin ' reads vertically rather than horizontally The same formulation is given by Menasseh in the present work p 160 Literature Reiner Hausherr Zur Menetekel-Inschrift auf Rembrandts Belsazarbild in Oud Holland vol 78 1963 pp 142-49 1639 http //www sothebys com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/important-judaica-n08691/lot 156 html Sotheby's Menasseh ben Israel other versions PD-Art Menasseh Ben Israel 1639 works
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