Conciliator

Written in Spanish to appeal to conversos (forcibly converted Jews), this work affirms the Torah’s truth by reconciling alleged biblical contradictions. Manasseh ben Israel, as one would expect, quotes from the “most difficult [Jewish] authors... Rashi, [Ibn] Ezra, Nachmanides, and Maimonides,” but also, in proof of his liberal learning, supports his arguments with Aristotle, Cicero, Suetonius, and even early Christian theologians: Chrysostom, Jerome, and Augustine. (See: Biblica Hebraica).