JUDAH HA-PARSI

JUDAH HA-PARSI: JUDAH HA-PARSI ("the Persian"), medieval scholar. No details are known about his personality or period. He is first mentioned by abraham ibn ezra (12th century), who states that Judah wrote a work attempting to prove that the ancient Israelites calculated the calendar according to the solar year, like the other peoples of antiquity. S. Pinsker , and later H. Graetz and I.H. Weiss , identified him with the eighth-century sectarian leader Yudghān , of Persian origin, but this identification seems highly doubtful. Some scholars consider Judah to have been a Karaite. These include S.I. Luzki, who ascribes to Judah a commentary on the Pentateuch. There is, however, no mention of Judah in Karaite literature. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: S. Pinsker, Likkutei Kadmoniyyot (1860), 24, 25 (first pagination); Mann, Texts, 2 (1935), 472. (Isaak Dov Ber Markon)

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