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An account of the persecutions borne by the Jewish people in their long history, aimed to confirm the Marranos in their faith and encourage them to return to Judaism. Following a then popular literary convention, the work takes the shape of a dialogue between a suffering shepherd and his comforters. The second part, based on the books of Maccabees and Josephus, deals specifically with the Second Temple period up to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. | An account of the persecutions borne by the Jewish people in their long history, aimed to confirm the Marranos in their faith and encourage them to return to Judaism. Following a then popular literary convention, the work takes the shape of a dialogue between a suffering shepherd and his comforters. The second part, based on the books of Maccabees and Josephus, deals specifically with the Second Temple period up to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. | ||
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Published in | Published in [[Ferrara, Italy]]: 1553, and in the [[Amsterdam, Netherlands]]: 1559. Reissued in modern times in Portugal: (a) ed. J. Mendes dos Remédios (Coimbra: Amado, 1906-1908); and (b) ''Consolação às Tribulações de Israel'', ed. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi e José V. de Pina Martins (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989). | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:30, 26 December 2019
Consolaçam ás tribulaçoens de Israel <Portuguese> / Consolation for the Tribulations of Israel (1553) is a book by Samuel Usque.
Abstract
An account of the persecutions borne by the Jewish people in their long history, aimed to confirm the Marranos in their faith and encourage them to return to Judaism. Following a then popular literary convention, the work takes the shape of a dialogue between a suffering shepherd and his comforters. The second part, based on the books of Maccabees and Josephus, deals specifically with the Second Temple period up to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.
Editions
Published in Ferrara, Italy: 1553, and in the Amsterdam, Netherlands: 1559. Reissued in modern times in Portugal: (a) ed. J. Mendes dos Remédios (Coimbra: Amado, 1906-1908); and (b) Consolação às Tribulações de Israel, ed. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi e José V. de Pina Martins (Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1989).