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of the eleventh century . Abenezra , Maimonides and Kimki ( contemporaries ) are certainly three of the triost illustrious men who liave ever adorned the synagogue . They were all of them native , ** of Spain , Abenezra is celebrated as an astronomer , physician , poet and grammarian . * He is
said to have invented the equator to divide the sphere , f His works have been often , reprinted and translated into many languages , among which bis Commentaries are considered of great interest and importance . | He was known to the Jews by the title of Chacam , or the Wise . He was the
friend of Moses Ben Maimon , ( Maimonides , ) whose writings hold , in the genera ) opinion of his nation , the next place to the Talmud and the Mishna . § He composed { it is said with equal purity ) in Hebrew , Chaldee , Greek and Arabic . When Abel elm u men ( King of Cordoba ) expatriated the Jews who would not embrace Ma
honimedanism , he fled to Cairo , where he was patronized by the Sultan , who chose him for his physician . || His genius , learning and judgment <§ have given his works an enduring fame , and they have been repeatedly translated by eminent scholars in Germany , Holland , France and England . ** He
* Consult ZacutrTs Book of Lineages , Reiando ' s Analecla Rabbi nica , and Assemani ' s Catal . of the MSS . of the Vatican . t Hil . Altobel Seni . Tab . X . Cap . xii . X One of his poems on the Game of Chess was translated into Latin by Thomas Hyde , and published , at Oxford in 1694 , with the original text .
§ It was a common saying * among- the Jews— Desde Moseh Imsta Moseh , no &e lev an to como Moseh / 1 Castro , I . 37 . || He must have been in great repute , for be writes to dis friend , R . Samuel Thibon , — Muchos ( enferntos ) tienen
quc esperar hasta por la hoc he porque son tamos que acuden que me ocupan toda la terde ; de modo que algunas reces me rinde el suefio de tal mancra que me quedo traspuesto en la inisma conveisacion sin podcr articular paiabra . " Ibid .
^ f Jos . Scaliger says of him , that he was the first among * the Jews who left off trifling . Primus fuit inter Hebrseos qui nugare desiit . Eichhom calls him one of the first , if not the very first , of learned Hebrews . ** Buxtorft ^ Oai pzovius and Baashuysen > CJ . J . and D . . Vossius , Zeller and Vorstins , Justiniani , Crsimer and I > fcveil ,
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died iii Egypt , aged TO , and was buried in the land of his forefathers ( Galilee ) , j c * His death was mourned for three whole days by Jews and Egyptians , and the year of his decease was called lament urn lamenta- * bile . " * David Kimki , entitled by the Jews
Ros Hamedakdekim , or Prince of Grammarians , is highly extolled for his immense erudition , not only by Rabinnical writers , but by Hottinger , Buxtorff and Wolfius ; as a learned commentator , second to none—as a master of his language , superior to any , t
Time would indeed fail me were I to attempt to give a correct idea of the love of learning , the spirit of inquiry , which distinguished the Spanish Jews . J We possess the names Pococke , Prideaux and Claveringv He is said to have first composed tbe Jewish creed , which see iu Purchas e s Pilgrimage , XIII . i . 194 .
* Connected with this period I cannot but men lion the sacred poetry of Judah Hatevi , born in Cordoba , 1126 , much admired by the Jews . Onarias ( Meor Hetiaim , Cap . xxxvi . ) recommends parents to engrave on the hearts of their children an early lore
for his writings . I must also refer to a singular composition of this time , the Travels of Benjamin of Tudela . Though considerable allowance should be made for the exaggeration of the writer , much interesting information may be collected from this curious narrative . It has beea
translated into Latin by the celebrated Arias Montano , and also by Constantiue L ' Empereur , whom Dr . Aikin , in his Biographical Dictionary , calls the Emperor Coustantine . A curious anachronism . -f- The heads of the Cordoba school , after the thirteenth century , were : Moses Ben Cozi , Moses Nachman , Solomon Ben Ade ~
reth , Perez Ben Rabbi , Gerson , Apinim , Aser , Cam panton and J . Aboab , who was expatriated by Ferdinand . J A Spanish poet of the twelfth * century ( Gonzalo de Berceo ) puts an unobjectionable confession of faith into the mouth of a Jew :
Dissoli el Judeo : io creer non podria Que ease que tu dices que nacio de Maria Que Dios es ; mas fo ome cuerdo e sin follia Prof eta verdadero : io al non creeria .
Milagros de nuestra Senoia * The whole of the poem is a most amusing specimen of the devotion and credulity of the age .
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The Nonconformist . No / Xt . & $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1819, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1773/page/5/
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