Antonio de Montezinos
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Antonio de Montezinos
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Antonio de Montezinos, also known as Aharon Levi or Aharon HaLevi, was a Portuguese traveler and a Marrano Sephardic Jew who in 1644 persuaded Menasseh Ben Israel, a rabbi of Amsterdam, that he had found one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel living in the jungles of the "Quito Province" of Ecuador. This supposed discovery gave a new impulse to Menasseh's Messianic hopes. Menasseh wrote a book about this narrative, The Hope of Israel. In it Menasseh argued, and tried to give learned support to the
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2008-03-17T04:53:27Z
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2024-09-07T12:15:35Z
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