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ABRAHAM DE METRARGUES

thirteenth century. In liis poem. "Tiie Fliitning iSwortl," AliriUmni Hechushi recognizes his ]ii>e(ie till(111. Zunz IJt.Tatiiri^esch." p. .50(1) nienticins ii

sician who lived in Marseilles, l-'raiiee, tirst i|uarter of the tifteentli century.

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olthc iiiiiiic of Abraham of Carpentras. He ideiililies him with Abraham ben Isaac, siirnanied Don Abraham of .MonlpelUer, one of the [Jarlizansof the anti-.Maimonist Al)l)a Mari of Lune), an-ia.

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from Gomfs Dh'an, In Mimats-ichrift, Litcrututyisch. p. 500; Uross, (ItMia JuS.

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113 Sip (• Kuli-liiH

a collection of ani.Juilieo (Jermau prose and verse, pub-

mal fables ill lished at Verona Bnir.inHRAPiiY: mill,

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in lo'io. Btidl. So. iX'J;

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Kilrsl,

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ABRAHAM MEDINA. See Medi.n.v. AiiU.vM ABRAHAM MEIR (called MEIRI). See Jli.ini .Vr.uAiiAM ABRAHAM BEN MEIR ABI ZIMKA. See AniZiMiiv Zimkai, .i:iihm ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN EZRA. ! IiiN KzK Ml Ml ABRAHAM BEN MEIR IBN KAMNIAL. See KwiMM,. ,i;kiii N ABRAHAM BEN MEIR HA-KOHEN II.

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I<;iblii and byiiiii wrilrr nf llir end i>t the ele eiilli Century; lived probably at Speyer. He was a col league of Itiislii, wilh whom he carried on a learned correspondence. In UMIti he compo.sed an elegy (kiim/i) on the persecutions of the Jews, of which he was an eye-witness. llnii.KMiiiAPilv MIrtmel, Or liii-Uiijiirim. No. llirt; Land.sliiilli,

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.Mliluul.

i>i

liii-ll<iiniiin,

and As a

Judaism about

15.

lilliU'ilhcca

(Icsch. d.

Judcn,

Patrum,

ed. Leyden,

xll.

285;

v. 20, 3»».

ABRAHAM MONSON. See MoxsoN, AbraABRAHAM OF MONTPELLIER Commen:

tator on the gieatir part of the 'ralniud.

His coinmentaries on Hullin and Ketubot are quoted by Jacob ben Moses of Baguols, who wrote between llioT-til, and by Jlenaliem di Lonzano, who lived in the second half of the si.teentli century. He has been mistaken for the father of the celebrated antiJlaimonist Solomon ben Alirahani of .Montpellier, who nourished in the middle of the thirteenth century. Isaac de Lattes. in his "Sha'are Zion " (ed. Buber, p. 42) names Kabbi Abraham among the scholars of the generation succeeding Solomon, of whose father he sjieaks simply as "Abraham," with.

out the

title

of rabbi.

11iiiiiii(kapiiv lie l/ittes. Sha'are ZUm, ed. Buber, p. 42; Ni'ulMiuur, ill Ilcc. £t. Juices, 1884, xvll. 3J; Uruss, (Jallia

Judaica,

p. 32ti.

L. G.

ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI FARISSOL. See KMit^MU, .i;i:llM N MoliOli M, ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI GALANTE. Mokihi m. Seei;M.Nri. .ki;mim ABRAHAM BEN MORDECAI HA-LEVI: i;i

i:i

n

-Vn Kgypliiiii niblii of the end of the seventeenth cenliirv. In lli'.ll he ediud at Venice his fallier'.s responsa, "Darke No'am," adding a treatise of his

circumcision, which, however, met with a great deal of opposition from contemporary rabbis. .Vbraham's own colled ion of responsa, "Ginnat AVenidim " (Garden of Hosesi arranged in the same ord-1S. by his son in law Hayyim ben Moses Tavila, physician in ordinary to the sultan..

BiHi.ioiiRArnv: Aziilal, Shcm Im-O'ri/olim, Itztir Iia-Srfarim, pp. 119, 213.

Nu. IHT.

L. O.

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neiijarob,

W.

lirst

in I.ViM-tlO, in praise

Bini.iiiiauriiv

He

Sinai.

century,

si.xtli

ham

llie

edition of llieZohar, pulilished at .Mantua of wliieli he wrote verses wliieh Wire printed in the prefair'. He has ln-eii frei|iu>iitly nilsiaken for Aiuiaimm. ioiioit iir.N Mksiu i.i.am, mil hor of several philosophical treatises. tile

to

Mount

L. G.

ABRAHAM BEN MESHULLAM OF MOSENA llelirew scholar; one of correctors of

in

own on

p. 4IM.

L, Ci.

STEIN.

a monastery on born about the close of the lived

Jew, receiving the name Abraham, by which he was subsequently known.



of

In

Christian, he spent his life in penance and prayer. Doubts as to the Christian dogma grew in his mind, and, after a prolonged struggle, he deserted his cell in the monastery on Sinai and wandered through the desert into Palestine, tinally reaching Tiberias. Here he submitted to circumcision and became a

K.

ABRAHAM MANELES. Sec B.ciiR,vcn. Ann Ml AM ABRAHAM (ALLXJF) MASS ARAN. Sec JIassm; , .ki: m ABRAHAM BEN MATTATHIAS Compiler

tliat



was became a convert

Abraham

E.lra<t



ISfC, p. .'it:.': Zuuz, diiU-ii, p. (iOT.

men-

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who

the Old, and by others simply Abraham ("(jii'lli'i Judaica," p. GOT). The unfortunate poet Isiuic ben Abraham Gorni, who was at Carpentras at the .same time, speaks of Abraham Jlaliiki in the higliest terms. "Abraham," he said, "will intervene in favor of the sinners of Sodom [CarpentRusj, where there arc not ten righteous." .lonie

He

documents of

W. M.

eounly of Venaissin. and are still Sephardic liturgy. Gro.ss. however, with more reason, altributesthis|)oem to Abraham Malalii, who

by



ABRAHAM MINZ. See MiNZ. AiiiiAiiAM. ABRAHAM THE MONK A Palestinian friar

nilies of the aiieii'iil

culled

.V phyduring the

BiBLIonnAniv: Barthelemy, Les MMecins d JlarveiUe, Her. £' Juivca. vll. HH Gross, Oallia Judaica, p. .'Wi}.

in the is

Abraham ha-Levi Abraham ben Mosea

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ABRAHAM MORPURGO. ABRAHAM BEN MOSES

I'rinlir

.iihI

B.

See ^Mourriioo,

(SCHEDEL):

ii'initor for the press;

nourished in

I'lau'iiealiout IHoo. Atindiam niel wilh some succesii He Iraiislaled the Hook of Kzekiel into ill authorship

Judieo-tiernian rime, and printed it in his own establishment in llMi. He shows liimseK to liave been