Abraham Cohen de Herrera

Abraham Cohen ( de ) Herrera, Abraham Irira, Christian baptismal name Alonso Nunez de Herrera (* 1570, † 1635 or 1639 in Amsterdam ) was a religious philosopher and Kabbalist.

The birthplace of Herrera is not known. According to some sources he was supposedly born in a prestigious Marranenfamilie in Lisbon. Later held Herrea and his family in Florence. From there he went to Morocco and fell in the service of Sultan Ahmad al - Mansur in English captivity. In the 1590s he lived according to his information in Ragusa, where he studied the Lurianic Kabbalah in Israel Sarug. After this time, he moved to Amsterdam and returned to normative Judaism. Here he wrote several works in Spanish, which were later translated into Hebrew. Particular attention aroused his book Puerta del cielo ( Sha'ar Shamayim hash, hebrew 1655 by Isaac Aboab da Fonseca ), a Neo-Platonic exposition of Lurianic Kabbalah, which was widely read in the Latin translation, by Christians.

Works (selection)

  • Epitome compendio y de la logica.
  • Libro de Diffinitiones.
  • Casa de la divinidad.
  • Puerta del cielo.
  • The book Sha'ar ha - shamayim ( romanized ) or gate of heaven. In which the kabbalistic teachings presented philosophical and compared with the Platonic philosophy. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-518-06387-1.

Literature (selection )

  • Jacob Gordin: HERRERA, ABRAHAM DE KOHEN. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, Volume 9, Detroit / New York, among others 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865937-4, pp. 40-41 (English)
  • Wininger III, 60 ( 1928)
  • Philo -Lexikon 1936, Sp 289
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