Mario Javier Saban (Buenos Aires, 1966), is an Argentinean theologian and historian of Sephardi origin.
Saban’s family descends from Spanish Jews sheltered in the Ottoman Empire in 1492. In 1987 he began his historical investigations about the Jewish origins of the Argentina's traditional families. His first work, Converted Jews (1990), became a best-seller.
In year 2002 he migrated to Spain, where he published his book The Judaism of Saint Paul ...
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Mario Javier Saban (Buenos Aires, 1966), is an Argentinean theologian and historian of Sephardi origin.
Saban’s family descends from Spanish Jews sheltered in the Ottoman Empire in 1492. In 1987 he began his historical investigations about the Jewish origins of the Argentina's traditional families. His first work, Converted Jews (1990), became a best-seller.
In year 2002 he migrated to Spain, where he published his book The Judaism of Saint Paul (2003).
On June 2007 he founded the organization Tarbut Sefarad, which he presides. In March 2008 he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy by the Complutense University of Madrid. In June of the same year he published his doctoral thesis that titled Rambam, the genius of Moses Maimonides, that is based on his deep study of the Guide for the Perplexed. In September 2008 he published his eleventh work, The Judaism of Jesus, which is an extensive work dedicated to the Jesus doctrine and his natural relation with the Judaism. One of the Saban's books...
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