ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH BEN ABRAHAM
- ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH BEN ABRAHAM
- ABRAHAM BEN JUDAH BEN ABRAHAM (15th century), the
"Elder," Karaite biblical exegete and liturgical poet of Constantinople.
In his main work Yesod Mikra, a commentary of the Bible,
Abraham quotes Rabbanite as well as Karaite authorities and refrains
from polemics against the Rabbanites. It is preserved in two manuscripts
(Jewish Theological Seminary and Leyden) both transcribed by his
grandson Judah b. Elijah Tishbi (in 1511 and 1518, respectively).
Fifteen liturgical poems by Abraham are included in the Karaite prayer
book.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Steinschneider, Catalogue Leyden (1858), nos. 1–5; Mann,
Texts, 2 (1935), 1420–21; S. Poznański, in: Yevreyskaya
Entsiklopediya, 1 (c. 1910), 291–2.
(Jakob Naphtali Hertz Simchoni)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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