Career
Some scholars believe that he was Emanuel Swedenborg"s Hebrew tutor. During his time at Uppsala, he wrote his three-volume work on the Zohar entitled Matteh Moshe (The Staff of Moses), (1711). In it, he attempted to show that the Zohar contained the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.
This belief also drove him to make a literal Hebrew translation of the Gospel of Matthew from Syriac (1703).
After his death, Kemper"s student Andreas Norrelius (1679–1749) translated the commentary into Latin as Illuminatio oculorum (The Light of the Eyes),(1749).