Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra

Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth-Century Jewish Polymath

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ISBN 9780674745551

Publication Date: 03/01/1994

224 pages

6 x 9 inches

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Foreword
Abraham Ibn Ezra as an Exegete [Nahum M. Sarna]
Some Astrological Themes in the Thought of Abraham Ibn Ezra [Y. Tzvi Langermann]
Interpreting the Interpreter: Supercommentaries on Ibn Ezra’s Commentaries [Uriel Simon]
Ibn Ezra in Modern Jewish Perspective [Jay M. Harris]
(In Hebrew) R. Abraham Ibn Ezra as a Philologist [Simhah Kogut]
(In Hebrew) Did R. Abraham Ibn Ezra Influence Maimonides? [Isadore Twersky]

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