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Del Bene, Judah

Born: ca. 1618, place uncertain, probably Mantua

Died: April 2, 1678, Ferrara

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Judah del Bene is an Italian rabbi and preacher in Ferrara in the early seventeenth century.

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  • [Del Bene], Assael, Judah. 1646. Kisot le-Veit David. Verona.

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  • Ha-Kohen, Israel ben Abraham. n.d. Yesodato be-Harrerei Kodesh, 455. MS Budapest-Kaufmann A.

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  • Kaufmann, David. 1896. The dispute about the Sermons of David del Bene of Mantua. Jewish Quarterly Review old series 8: 513–525.

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  1. Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Adam Shear

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. Finnish Center of Political Thought & Conceptual Change, JYVÄSKYLÄN YLIOPISTO, Finland

    Vasileios Syros

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Shear, A. (2018). Del Bene, Judah. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_786-1

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