* Isaac Abravanel flees Portugal after being implicated in a plot against the king.

Isaac Abravanel, his " Rosh Amanah ," took the same attitude towards Maimonides ' creed.

Isaac Abravanel, statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator, and financier who commented on Maimonides ' thirteen principles in his Rosh Amanah.

Isaac Abravanel was steeped in Rationalism by the Ibn Yahya family, who had a residence immediately adjacent to the Great Synagogue of Lisbon ( also built by the Ibn Yahya Family ).

29 Tishrei-( 1508 )-Passing of Rabbi Don Isaac Abravanel

* Isaac Abravanel

He wrote also a work on redemption, from which Isaac Abravanel appropriated many ideas.

If among Jews he exercised for a long time only through Joseph Albo any perceptible influence, though he was studied, for instance, by Don Isaac Abravanel, who controverts especially his Messianic theories, and by Abram Shalom in his Neveh Shalom, Crescas ' work was of prime and fundamental importance through the part it had in the shaping of Baruch Spinoza's system.

" According to Moses Almosnino, Isaac Abravanel desired to translate the " Quæstio de Spiritualibus Creaturis.

Don Isaac Abravanel wrote that his forebears descended from King David, but this has been challenged on the grounds of lack of sources.

* Don Isaac Abravanel, also Isaac ben Judah Abravanel or Abarbanel ( 1437 – 1508 ) was born in Lisbon, Portugal.

** Judah Leon Abravanel, also Leon Hebreo or Leo Hebraeus ( c. 1460 – c. 1535 ), was a European Jewish physician, poet and philosopher, author of the " Dialogues of Love ", the eldest son of Don Isaac Abravanel.

** Joseph Abravanel ( Lisbon, 1471 – c. 1552 ), son of Don Isaac Abravanel, was a physician and scholar.

*** Isaac Abravanel II ( died 1573 ) was son of Joseph Abravanel and grandson of the Bible-commentator.

** Samuel Abravanel ( Lisbon, 1473-Ferrara, 1551 ) was the youngest son of Isaac Abravanel, and the grandson of Judah.

Ironically, according to historian David Brion Davis, Abrabanel played a pivotal role in providing the conceptual basis for black slavery: "[...] 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.

Isaac Abravanel developed many works during his lifetime which are often categorized into three groups: exegesis, philosophy, and apologetics.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Cousin Joshua Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac Pitt until life passed away -- and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world.

During the 1670s corpuscularianism was used by Isaac Newton in his development of the corpuscular theory of light.

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

Alexios ' father declined the throne on the abdication of Isaac, who was accordingly succeeded by four emperors of other families between 1059 and 1081.

Under Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes ( 1071 – 1078 ) and Nikephoros III Botaneiates ( 1078 – 1081 ), he was also employed, along with his elder brother Isaac, against rebels in Asia Minor, Thrace, and in Epirus.

Furthermore, to aid the conspiracy Maria had adopted Alexios as her son, though she was only five years older than he Maria was persuaded to do so on the advice of her own " Alans " and her eunuchs, who had been instigated to do his by Isaac Komnenos.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This measure, which was intended to diminish opposition, was paralleled by the introduction of new courtly dignities, like that of panhypersebastos given to Nikephoros Bryennios, or that of sebastokrator given to the emperor's brother Isaac Komnenos.

By him she was the grandmother of Emperors Isaac II Angelos and Alexios III Angelos.

His younger brother Isaac was threatened with execution under orders of their first-cousin once-removed Andronikos I Komnenos on September 11, 1185.

In 1195, while Isaac II was away hunting in Thrace, Alexios was acclaimed as emperor by the troops with the conniving of Alexios ' wife Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople in their efforts to defend the city from the Latins and Venetians, who were restless and rioted when the money and aid promised by Alexios IV was not forthcoming.

The young Alexios IV was strangled in prison, while his father Isaac died shortly afterwards, his death variously attributed to fright, sorrow, or foul play.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

Germain Morin broke new ground by suggesting in 1899 that the writer was Isaac, a converted Jew and writer of a tract on the Trinity and Incarnation, who was exiled to Spain in 378-380 and then relapsed to Judaism ; but he afterwards abandoned this theory of the authorship in favour of Decimus Hilarianus Hilarius, proconsul of Africa in 377.

He was the son of Isaac Komnenos and grandson of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

The first recorded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born on Grand Cayman around 1700.

Notable persons born at the naval base include actor Peter Bergman and American guitarist Isaac Guillory.

According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born, and Sarah was beyond childbearing years.

Isaac was 60 years old when his two sons were born.

Jacob and his twin brother, Esau, were born to Isaac and Rebekah after 20 years of marriage, when Isaac was 60 (, ).

In that case, since Isaac was 60 when Jacob and Essau were born and they had been married for 20 years, then Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah ( Gen. 25: 20 ), making Rebekah 3 years old at the time of her marriage, and 23 years old at the birth of Jacob and Essau.

In either case, Isaac and Rebekah were married for 20 years before Jacob and Esau were born.

Michael Foot was born in Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fifth of seven children of Isaac Foot ( 1880 – 1960 ) and Eva ( née Mackintosh, died 17 May 1946 ), a Scotswoman ..

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

Robert E. Howard at about five years old ( circa 1911 ). Howard was born January 22, 1906 in Peaster, Texas, the only son of a traveling country physician, Dr. Isaac Mordecai Howard, and his wife, Hester Jane Ervin Howard.

The ten-in-one might be partly a freak show exhibiting " human oddities " ( including " born freaks " such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or " made freaks " like tattooed people, fat people or " human skeletons "- extremely thin men often " married " to the fat lady, like Isaac W. Sprague ).

Chodowiecki, though speaking only French and German ( due to his offices in the Huguenot French community in Berlin he often spoke French ), many times also declared his Polish allegiance and had his son Isaac Heinrich, born in Berlin, painted as a very young child with a Polish outfit and haircut.

Because he was born in space, with one parent from Venus and the other from Earth, he claims Venusian citizenship ; more importantly, Sir Isaac vouches for him.

15 Nisan – ( 1713 BCE ) – Isaac born

Gabriel also has two sons with Meabh Flynn: Isaac Ralph ( born 27 September 2001 ) and Luc ( born 5 July 2008 ).

* Isaac Roop, first elected ( provisional ) governor of the newly proposed Nevada Territory ; born in Carroll County.

() As noted above, Isaac was 60 when they were born, so they were 120 years old here, which is 10 years before Jacob, at the age of 130, stood before Pharaoh in.

Reece was born on a farm near Butler, Tennessee, one of thirteen children of John Isaac and Sarah Maples Reece.

It was designed by architect Isaac Hodgson, who was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1826 and immigrated to the United States in 1848 ; he designed six Indiana courthouses, including the one in Henry County.

Isaac Liev Schreiber ( not ; born October 4, 1967 ), commonly known as Liev Schreiber, is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter.

Schreiber was born Isaac Liev Schreiber in San Francisco, California, the son of Heather ( née Milgram ) and Tell Schreiber, a stage actor and director.