Editing Isaac Abendana

{{Short description|Jewish professor in England, 1600s}}
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{{One source|date=March 2023}}'''Isaac Abendana''' ({{Circa|1640}}–1699) was the younger brother of [[Jacob Abendana]], and became ''[[Hakham#Among the Sephardim|hakam]]'' of the [[Spanish Portuguese Synagogue]] in London after his brother died.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=37091|title=Abendana, Isaac|first=David S.|last=Katz}}</ref>

Abendana moved to England before his brother, in 1662, and taught Hebrew at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. He completed an unpublished [[Latin]] translation of the ''[[Mishnah]]'' for the university in 1671.

While he was at Cambridge, Abendana sold Hebrew books to the [[Bodleian Library]] of [[Oxford University|Oxford]], and in 1689 he took a teaching position in [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]]. In Oxford, he wrote a series of Jewish [[almanac]]s for Christians, which he later collected and compiled as the ''Discourses on the Ecclesiastical and Civil Polity of the Jews'' (1706). Like his brother, he maintained an extensive correspondence with leading Christian scholars of his time, most notably with the philosopher [[Ralph Cudworth]], master of [[Christ's College, Cambridge]].

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