LANIADO, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC
- LANIADO, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC
- LANIADO, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC (d. after 1619), biblical
commentator, of Aleppo. In his youth Laniado studied in Safed,
joseph caro being one of his teachers. After undergoing many
hardships in this city he returned to Aleppo where he married the
daughter of samuel b. abraham laniado , who was apparently his
uncle, and who provided for his support. Laniado was in Venice in 1603
and in that year saw to the publication of his father-in-law's work
Keli Yekar, a commentary on the major prophets, and of his
own work Magen Avraham, consisting of homilies. He also wrote
Nekuddot ha-Kesef (Venice, 1619), a commentary to the Song of
Songs which was published with the text, the Aramaic Targum, and a
Ladino translation. In the introduction to this work, Laniado stated
that he also wrote a commentary to the Pentateuch titled Torat
Ḥesed, and to the Five Scrolls, the haftarot, Psalms,
Proverbs, Job, and Daniel.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Frumkin-Rivlin, 1 (1928), 129; M.D. Gaon, Yehudei ha-Mizraḥ be-Ereẓ
Yisrael, 2 (1937), 311.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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