IBN ZABARRA (Zabara), JUDAH

IBN ZABARRA (Zabara), JUDAH
IBN ZABARRA (Zabara), JUDAH (end of 13th–beginning of 14th century), poet and philosophical author. Judah was probably born in Spain, and was a pupil of aaron ha-levi , whom he mentions frequently, and meir abulafia . He wrote his philosophical work, Mikhtav ha-Teḥiyyah (dealing with the resurrection of the dead), for a resident of Montpellier, and it can be assumed that he himself lived for a while in Montpellier. This work was published together with Maimonides' Ma'amar Teḥiyyat ha-Metim (1569). In one of his poems Judah praises the works of menahem meiri . -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cowley, Cat, 371; Gross, Gal Jud, 331; Dukes, in: OLZ, 8 (1905), 117.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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  • IBN ZABARA (or Zabarra), JOSEPH BEN MEIR — (b. about 1140), physician and Hebrew writer. Born in Barcelona, Ibn Zabara was a contemporary of some of the tibbon family, of maimonides and of Judah Al Ḥarizi ; praised his scientific knowledge in his Commentary to Proverbs. Like his father,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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