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 * Abayi, Amora, 51.
 * Abba Areka, Amora, 47, 48, 51.
 * popularizes Jewish learning, 49.
 * wide outlook of, 50.
 * Abbahu, Amora, 48-49.
 * Abraham de Balmes, translator, 149.
 * Abraham de Porta Leone, historian, 220.
 * Abraham Ibn Chisdai, story by, 154-155.
 * Abraham Ibn Daud, historian, 213-214.
 * Abrahan Ibn Ezra, on Kalir, 88.
 * life of, 115.
 * quotations from, 115.
 * activities and views of, 116, 123, 151.
 * Abraham Abulafia, Kabbalist, 171.
 * Abraham Farissol, geographer, 206.
 * Abraham Zacuto, historian, 216.
 * Abul-Faraj Harun, Karaite author, 77.
 * Abulwalid Merwan Ibn Janach, grammarian, 101.
 * works of, translated, 143.
 * Achai, Gaon and author, 70.
 * Acharonim, later scholars, 240.
 * Æsop, used by Berachya haNakdan, 157.
 * "Against Apion," by Josephus, 34.
 * Akiba, a Tanna, 23, 24-26.
 * characteristics and history of, 24-26.
 * school of, 26.
 * fable used by, 175.
 * Al-Farabi, works of, translated, 185.
 * Alfassi, See Isaac Alfassi.
 * Alfonso V of Portugal, Abarbanel with, 225.
 * Alfonso VI of Spain, takes Toledo, 126.
 * Alfonso X of Spain, employs Jews as translators, 150, 156.
 * Almobades, the, a Mohammedan sect, 134, 135.
 * "Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba," Kabbalistic work, 175.
 * Amoraim, the, teachers of the Talmud, 44.
 * characterized, 45-46.
 * some of. enumerated. 46-52.
 * Amram, Gaon, liturgist, 70.
 * Anan, the son of David, founder of Karaism, 75.
 * Andalusia, the Spanish Piyut in, 85.
 * "Answers." See "Letters"; "Responses."
 * "Antiquities of the Jews," by Josephus, 34.
 * Antonio de Montesinos, and the Ten Tribes, 208, 247.
 * Apion, attacks Judaism, 36.
 * Apocrypha, the, addresses of parents to children in, 194.
 * Aquila, translates the Scriptures, 26.
 * identical with Onkelos, 26-27.
 * Aquinas, Thomas, studies the "Guide," 140.
 * Arabic, used by the Gaonim, 71,
 * in Jewish literature, 88.
 * poetry, 84.
 * translation of the Scriptures, 91, 93, 94.
 * commentary on the Mishnah, 135.
 * Aragon, Spanish Piyut in, 85.
 * Aramaic, translation of the Pentateuch, 27.
 * used by Josephus, 37.
 * language of the Talmud, 44.
 * used by the Gaonim, 71.
 * translation of Scriptures in the synagogues, 94.
 * language of the Zohar, 173.
 * Arbäa Turim, code by Jacob Asheri, 234, 239.
 * Archimedes, works of, translated, 150, 185.