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INDEX

Table of contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  • Abayi, Amora, 51.
  • Abba Areka, Amora, 47, 48, 51.
    • popularizes Jewish learning, 49.
    • wide outlook of, 50.
  • Abbahu, Amora, 48-49.
  • Abraham de Balmes, translator, 149.
  • Abraham de Porta Leone, historian, 220.
  • Abraham Ibn Chisdai, story by, 154-155.
  • Abraham Ibn Daud, historian, 213-214.
  • Abrahan Ibn Ezra, on Kalir, 88.
    • life of, 115.
    • quotations from, 115.
    • activities and views of, 116, 123, 151.
  • Abraham Abulafia, Kabbalist, 171.
  • Abraham Farissol, geographer, 206.
  • Abraham Zacuto, historian, 216.
  • Abul-Faraj Harun, Karaite author, 77.
  • Abulwalid Merwan Ibn Janach, grammarian, 101.
    • works of, translated, 143.
  • Achai, Gaon and author, 70.
  • Acharonim, later scholars, 240.
  • Æsop, used by Berachya haNakdan, 157.
  • "Against Apion," by Josephus, 34.
  • Akiba, a Tanna, 23, 24-26.
    • characteristics and history of, 24-26.
    • school of, 26.
    • fable used by, 175.
  • Al-Farabi, works of, translated, 185.
  • Alfassi, See Isaac Alfassi.
  • Alfonso V of Portugal, Abarbanel with, 225.
  • Alfonso VI of Spain, takes Toledo, 126.
  • Alfonso X of Spain, employs Jews as translators, 150, 156.
  • Almobades, the, a Mohammedan sect, 134, 135.
  • "Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba," Kabbalistic work, 175.
  • Amoraim, the, teachers of the Talmud, 44.
    • characterized, 45-46.
    • some of. enumerated. 46-52.
  • Amram, Gaon, liturgist, 70.
  • Anan, the son of David, founder of Karaism, 75.
  • Andalusia, the Spanish Piyut in, 85.
  • "Answers." See "Letters"; "Responses."
  • "Antiquities of the Jews," by Josephus, 34.
  • Antonio de Montesinos, and the Ten Tribes, 208, 247.
  • Apion, attacks Judaism, 36.
  • Apocrypha, the, addresses of parents to children in, 194.
  • Aquila, translates the Scriptures, 26.
    • identical with Onkelos, 26-27.
  • Aquinas, Thomas, studies the "Guide," 140.
  • Arabic, used by the Gaonim, 71,
    • in Jewish literature, 88.
    • poetry, 84.
    • translation of the Scriptures, 91, 93, 94.
    • commentary on the Mishnah, 135.
  • Aragon, Spanish Piyut in, 85.
  • Aramaic, translation of the Pentateuch, 27.
    • used by Josephus, 37.
    • language of the Talmud, 44.
    • used by the Gaonim, 71.
    • translation of Scriptures in the synagogues, 94.
    • language of the Zohar, 173.
  • Arbäa Turim, code by Jacob Asheri, 234, 239.
  • Archimedes, works of, translated, 150, 185.