Zerahiah

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• ZERAHIAH BEN ISAAC BEN SHEALTIEL — (Gracian (Ḥen), philosopher, Bible commentator, and translator. Zerahiah was born in Barcelona to a prominent Jewish family, which for several generations produced rabbis and sages. In the last quarter of the 13th century he was active in Rome.… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Zerahiah ben Shealtiel Ḥen — was a Spanish Jewish physician, philosopher, translator, and Hebraist. He flourished about the end of the thirteenth century. He was born either at Barcelona, or at Toledo. He is sometimes confused with Zerahiah ben Isaac ha Levi Saladin, also a… …   Wikipedia

• ZERAHIAH BEN ISAAC HA-LEVI — (known as Ferrarius Saladi; late 14th–early 15th century), rabbi of Saragossa and of all the communities of Aragon. A disciple of Ḥasdai Crescas , he distinguished himself as a talmudist, preacher, physician, and translator, and was one of the… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Zerahiah the Greek — Rabbi Zerachiah the Greek (in Hebrew, Zerachiah ha Yavani or ha Yewani ; sometimes known by the acronymistic nickname Ra Za H ) was a Greek Jewish ethicist who resided in the Byzantine Empire in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. Of his life… …   Wikipedia

• Zerahiah Levi (Saldin, Ferrer) — (fl. 15th cent)    Spanish scholar and poet. A disciple of Hasdai Crescas, he served as rabbi of Zaragoza and all the commu nities of Aragon. He was a talmudist, preacher, physician and translator, and also participated in the Disputation of… …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

• GERONDI, ZERAHIAH BEN ISAAC HA-LEVI — (12th century), rabbinical scholar and poet. His father, ISAAC HAYIẒHARI ben ZERAHIAH HA LEVI GERONDI, was a Hebrew poet and talmudic scholar in Spain. His poetry was included in the rites of the communities of Avignon, Carpentras, Montpellier,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• GOTA, MOSES ZERAHIAH BEN SHNEUR — (d. 1648), Turkish rabbi. Gota studied under Jehiel Basan and Joseph di Trani. After spending most of his life in Constantinople, he moved to Jerusalem and from there, to Hebron; financial difficulties compelled him to leave for Cairo, where he… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATORS — The earliest Jewish translations, apart from possible examples in the Bible, are the Greek version of the Pentateuch and, later, other books of the Bible, which were made to fill a need in the Greek speaking Jewish community of Alexandria and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIÈRES — (known as Rabad, i.e., Rabbi Abraham Ben David; c. 1125–1198); talmudic authority in Provence. Abraham was born in Narbonne, and died in Posquières, a small city near Nîmes famous for the yeshivah he established there. He lived during a… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Sefer haYashar — Sefer haYashar, Hebrew ספר הישר (also transliterated Sēper haiYāšār ), Book of the Upright , often only half translated into English as Book of Jasher or as Book of Jashar .There are a number of works with this name:*Sefer haYashar (Biblical… …   Wikipedia

• Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne — (c. 1110 ndash; 1179) was a Provençal rabbi, also known as Raavad II, and author of the halachic work Ha Eshkol ( The Cluster ).Abraham ben Isaac was probably born at Montpellier. His teacher was Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha Levi, and during… …   Wikipedia