SAMUEL BEN DANIEL ABU RABĪʿA HA-KOHEN
- SAMUEL BEN DANIEL ABU RABĪʿA HA-KOHEN
- SAMUEL BEN DANIEL ABU RABĪʿA HA-KOHEN (13th
century), last gaon of baghdad , succeeding his father
R. Daniel Abu Rabīa. Samuel wrote two letters in 1288 on the controversy
over the ban (ḥerem) on maimonide s' Moreh
Nevukhim. In one of the letters, sent to R. David Maimuni
ha-Nagid and the rabbis of Acre, Samuel states that he has issued a
ban against R. Solomon b. Samuel Petit, Maimonides' bitter opponent.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Halberstamm, in: Jeschurun, 7 (1871), 76–80; H. Brody (ed.),
Divan Elazar ben Ya'akov ha-Bavli (1935), no. 173; S.
Poznański, Babylonische Geonim im nachgaonaeischen Zeitalter
(1914), 52–53, 70–71; Mann, in: HḤY, 6 (1922), 121–2;
Mann, Texts, 1 (1931), 227–8, 273; A. Ben-Jacob, in: Zion, 15
(1949/50), 69; idem, Yehudei Bavel (1965), 34.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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