Talk:Isaac Abarbanel

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message: I think mention should be made of the pronunciation/spelling "Abarbanel" esp. since that is the universal (I think) traditional pronunciation among Jews. Additionally, there is scholarly support for this pronunciation. This is from a paper by Dr. Sid Leiman:
 Although modern scholarship (via GRAETZ and BAER) has adopted the spelling Abravanel, the traditional 
 pronunciation and spelling, Abarbanel, has been preferred throughout this discussion. Cf. B. NETANYAHU, 
 Don Isaac Abravanel (Philadelphia, 1953), appendix A, p. 261, who admits that Don Isaac's son Judah "seems 
 to have insisted on the form Abarbanel". 
See here: http://leimanlibrary.com/texts_of_publications/2.%20Abarbanel%20and%20the%20Censor.pdf (page 1 note 1) where he adduces more support for this pronunciation. I will further point out that on the article page itself there is an image of a title page of a book from 1642 that spells his name "ABARBANEL" in Latin characters. MosheEmes (talk) 15:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
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message: I don't fully understand/know how to edit pages properly. So, I am posting this here to see if someone else wants to take it. 
The page falsely claims that Brion Davis wrote that Abravanel was responsible for underpinning ideas of Black Slavery. 
1. There is a wealth of information that Islamic theologians in the 7th century originated those ideas. 
2. I looked up the alleged source for the claim on the page. Page 55 of Inhuman Bondage by Brion Davis is the source. But, he doesn't say  Abravanel was responsible, he says Aristotle was responsible.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.170.193.176 (talk) 01:39, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is the text of the quote: "It is significant that Aristotle’s theory of slavery formed the framework for the momentous debate in Spain, in 1550–51, between Juan Ginés Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de Las Casas, on whether American Indians had been created to be natural slaves (with Las Casas attacking that conclusion but not Aristotle’s basic premises). Fifty-two years earlier, the great Jewish philosopher and statesman Isaac ben Abravanel, having seen many black slaves both in his native Portugal and in Spain, merged Aristotle’s theory of natural slaves with the belief that the biblical Noah had cursed and condemned to slavery both his son Ham and his young grandson Canaan. Abravanel concluded that the servitude of animalistic black Africans should be perpetual.[24] And while it would be absurd to blame Aristotle for all the uses to which his writings have been put, he did eventually provide the conceptual basis for much nineteenth-century Southern proslavery ideology and scientific theories of racial inferiority." I will now try to look and see if the article reflects this accurately... Ar2332 (talk) 14:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
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message: The section "Assessment of his works" was apparently written by a two year old. 16:27, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assesment of his works 

message: In the transliteration‎ "Maʿyānei haYəshuʿāh", the first word seems quite wrong, and should be corrected in accordance with Isa. 12:3. This inconsistency is particularly glaring, given that an academic rather than popular transliteration style has been employed. Toddcs (talk) 13:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  ‎Maʿyānei haYəshuʿāh