The Open court . Pakudathe moralist (1050-1100); Ibn Giath, cosmographer, astronomer,and philosopher; Ibn Gikatilla, the grammarian (1070-1100); IbnBalaam, commentator and philosopher (d. iioo); Moses ibn Ezra,the hymnist (d. 1139); Jehuda ha-Levi, the philosopher and poet(d. 1141); Abraham ibn Ezra, commentator, philosopher, and 34^ THE OPENfcOURT. poet (d. 1167); Jehuda al-Charizi, the Horace of Jewish poetry inSpain (d. 1230); Benjamin of Tudela, the traveler; Jehuda Tib-bon, the prince of translators (d. 1190); Isaac Alfasi, (d. 1089);Moses Maimonides, the greatest of all mediaeval rabbis
The Open court . Pakudathe moralist (1050-1100); Ibn Giath, cosmographer, astronomer,and philosopher; Ibn Gikatilla, the grammarian (1070-1100); IbnBalaam, commentator and philosopher (d. iioo); Moses ibn Ezra,the hymnist (d. 1139); Jehuda ha-Levi, the philosopher and poet(d. 1141); Abraham ibn Ezra, commentator, philosopher, and 34^ THE OPENfcOURT. poet (d. 1167); Jehuda al-Charizi, the Horace of Jewish poetry inSpain (d. 1230); Benjamin of Tudela, the traveler; Jehuda Tib-bon, the prince of translators (d. 1190); Isaac Alfasi, (d. 1089);Moses Maimonides, the greatest of all mediaeval rabbis (d. 1204);Moses Gerundensis or Nachmanides (d. 1270) ; Abraham Abu-lafia, the cabbalist (d. 1292); Moses ben Shem-Tob de Leon,the author of the Sohar (d. 1305); Jedaja Bedarshi or Penini(d. 1340); Abner of Burgos, better known by his Christian name,Alfonso Burgensis de Valladolid (d. 1340); Jacob ben Asheri;Ibn Caspi (d. 1340); Gersonides or Ralbag, among the Jews II, iij av n-stx*^ £i5^ 1,. % k^;[/. .;;,. Palm Procession on the Feast of Tabernacles famous as a philosopher and commentator (d. 1345); SolomonLevi, of Burgos, better known by his Christian name, Paulus Bur-gensis, or de Santa Maria, bishop of Burgos (d. 1435) ; JosephAlbo, (d. 1444); Simeon Duran, the polemic (d. 1444); IbnVerga, the historian, who died in the dungeon of the Inquisition;Abarbanel, the theologian and commentator, who was exiled withhis co-religionists from Spain (d. 1515). The great prosperity of the Jews in Spain proved their ignorant populace, instigated by the priests, could not brookthe happy condition of the Jews, and wherever they were to befound they were from time to time pounced upon ; numbers of HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE JEWS. 343 them were slain, while others, to save their lives, submitted tobaptism. Thus the Spanish Church contained, besides a body ofreal Jewish converts, whose names are known by their excellentwritings, a large number of nominal Christians who, by sentim
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