Abraham Usque

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Abraham Usque (given the Christian name Duarte Pinhel) was a 16th century Portuguese Jew. He fled the Inquisition for Ferrara, Italy, around 1543. There, he worked with Yom-Tob Ven Levi Athias (Jerome de Vargas), a Spanish typographer. Usque translated the Hebrew Bible into Spanish, published in folio at Ferrara in 1553. This edition has become scarce, but a second was published in Holland in 1630. In this translation, the Hebrew text is rendered verbatim. Other published books included Menina e Moca by Bernardim Ribeiro, and Consolaco as Tribulacoes de Israel by Samuel Usque.

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