Mario Javier Saban Philosopher

Mario Javier Sabán (Buenos Aires, 1966), is an Argentinian theologian of Sephardi origin.Sabán’s family is descended from Spanish Jews who 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[1], over which he presides. In March 2008 he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. In June of the same year he published his doctoral thesis entitled Rambam, the genius of Moses Maimonides, 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 teachings of Jesus and their natural relation with Judaism.One of the Saban's books was translated into English, with the title of The Jewish roots of Christianity.