ben Israel, Manasseh (1604–1657)
| French theologian. He became a rabbi in Amsterdam aged 18. He strongly advocated the return of the Jews to England and negotiated with Cromwell to that end in 1655. |
| He was born in La Rochelle. His greatest work, which took 29 years to write, was an effort to reconcile 472 apparently contradictory biblical passages. |
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