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    Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא, romanized: ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע; Arabic:...
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  • Ibn Ezra was the name of a prominent Jewish family from Spain spanning many centuries. The name ibn Ezra may refer to: Abraham ibn Ezra (1089–1167), Spanish...
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  • Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra, known as Ha-Sallaḥ ("writer of penitential prayers") (Arabic: أَبُو هَارُون مُوسَى بِن يَعْقُوب اِبْن عَزْرَا, romanized: Abū...
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    "Rabbi ben Ezra" is a poem by Robert Browning about the famous Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra (1092–1167), one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the 12th...
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    Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut (Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט; Arabic: حسداي بن شبروط, Abu Yussuf ibn Shaprut) born about 915 at Jaén, Spain;...
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    Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish...
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    Toledo and may have practiced medicine for the court there. He and Abraham ibn Ezra were well acquainted and the latter quoted Halevi on multiple occasions...
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    several passages from the Fons Vitæ in his own work, Aruggat ha-Bosem. Abraham ibn Ezra, who cites Gabirol's philosophico-allegorical Bible interpretation...
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    philosophers such as Bahya ibn Paquda (c. 1050–1120), Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141), Joseph ibn Tzaddik (died 1149), and Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1090–1165). Nevertheless...
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  • Drechsler, bar Ḥiyya was a pupil of Moshe ha-Darshan and teacher of Abraham ibn Ezra. He was held in high consideration by the ruler he served on account...
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    Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן־דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד, romanized: ʾAvrāhām ben-Dāvīd halLēvī ʾībən Dāʾūd; Arabic: ابراهيم بن داود, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm...
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    Dunash ben Labrat, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Judah ha-Levi, Moses ibn Ezra and Abraham ibn Ezra, in a "purified" Hebrew based on the work of these grammarians...
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  • Isaac ben Abraham ibn Ezra (Hebrew יצחק אבן עזרא, Arabic Abu Sa'd Isḥaḳ ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Majid ibn Ezra) is a 12th century poet from Al-Andalus. The...
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    world of grammatical or philological investigation in the vein of Abraham ibn Ezra or David Kimhi before him, instead focusing on a content-based investigation...
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  • Abraham ben David (c. 1125 – 27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal...
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    philosophy and the sciences, and was very much influenced by both Abraham ibn Ezra and Maimonides. In later life, he took part in the controversy surrounding...
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  • of sight", Joseph b. Isaac Bekhor Shor translates it "god saw me", Abraham Ibn Ezra, Bahya b. Asher, and Obadiah b. Jacob Sforno, "god who appears", David...
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    Karaite by the name of Abu al-Surri ben Zuṭa, who is referred to by Abraham ibn Ezra, in his commentary on Exodus 21:24 and Leviticus 23:15). In the year...
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  • سهل Abu Sahl; his surname, according to an isolated statement of Moses ibn Ezra, was "Al-Shafalgi," perhaps after his (unknown) birthplace. Another name...
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    עט (א): 91–141. ISSN 0334-3650. JSTOR 23607121. Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr Ibn (2009). Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on the First Book of Psalms: Chapter...
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    other commentators, among them Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Joseph Kara and Abraham ibn Ezra. Works of Jacob ben Ascher in the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke. Retrieved...
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  • Dorbolo, 12th-century halakhist Abraham ibn Daud, (Sefer HaKabbalah), 12th century Spanish philosopher Abraham ibn Ezra, (Ibn Ezra), 12th century Spanish-North...
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    Yellin and Israel Abrahams, Maimonides (1903) (full text of a biography) Y. Tzvi Langermann (2007). "Maimonides: Abū ʿImrān Mūsā [Moses] ibn ʿUbayd Allāh [Maymūn]...
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    mountain being called Sinai and the western side being called Horeb. Abraham Ibn Ezra suggested that there was one mountain, "only it had two tops, which...
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    3:73), the poet-philosopher who formed a link between Moses Ibn Ezra and Abraham Ibn Ezra (above, p. 49). Speaking from the Andalusian poetic perspective...
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  • Number), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir ibn Ezra (1090–1167). In 1342, Gersonides wrote On Sines, Chords and Arcs...
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    least, and has a moon-like bluish-white color. Spanish Jewish scholar Abraham ibn Ezra says the yahalom was a white stone. Lešem (לֶשֶׁם = in the Masoretic...
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    Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist, and...
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  • Encyclopaedia Judaica, s.v. "Rashi" (2nd ed.). Encyclopaedia Judaica, s.v. "Ibn Ezra, Abraham" (2nd ed.). "Jewish Encyclopedia". Retrieved March 10, 2013. Encyclopaedia...
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    in Orthodox yeshivas. Some classical rabbinic commentators, such as Abraham Ibn Ezra, Gersonides, and Maimonides, used many elements of contemporary biblical...
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