ASHKENAZI, SAUL BEN MOSES HA-KOHEN
- ASHKENAZI, SAUL BEN MOSES HA-KOHEN
- ASHKENAZI, SAUL BEN MOSES HA-KOHEN (c. 1470–1523),
philosopher. Ashkenazi was born in Candia, Crete, and studied there with
elijah delmedigo . Later he lived in Constantinople. His
best-known work is a set of 12 questions directed to
isaac abrabanel concerning the proper understanding of certain
passages in Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed and in works
by the Muslim philosophers al-Ghazālī and Aver-roes. It was published
under the title She'elot ha-Ray Sha'ul ha-Kohen (Venice,
1574; repr. Jerusalem, 1967–68) with Abrabanel's answers and some
additions by other authors. Two other works of his are mentioned in his
questions: Ir Elohim ("City of God") and Yekholet
Adonai ("Power of the Lord"). Another of his works, Sefer
ha-Takhliyyot ("Book of Goals"), devoted to problems of physics,
is known to have been in the possession of Moses b. Samuel Kasani, who
inherited his library.
In addition, Ashkenazi wrote glosses on Averroes' Physics.
Reference is made to a syllogism composed by him. Finally, an epilogue
he wrote to the book Beḥinat ha-Dat by his teacher Elijah
Delmedigo is known. His opposition to the kabbalists drew the criticism
of Joseph Solomon Delmedigo, who otherwise thought highly of him.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
A. Geiger, Melo Ḥofnayim (1840), xxii–xxiii, 23, 64, 66, 72;
M. Steinschneider, Catalog… Leiden (1858), 107–8;
Steinschneider, Cat Bod, 2507, no. 7098. ADD.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: B. Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel
(1972), index.
(Jacob Haberman)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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