Second+book+of+Moses
71MALACHI, BOOK OF — MALACHI, BOOK OF, the last (12th) book of the section of the Bible called minor prophets . In the Qumran fragment 4QXIIa, however, Malachi seems to be followed by Jonah. It contains The pronouncement of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi… …
72ROSSI, AZARIAH (Bonaiuto) BEN MOSES DEI — (c. 1511–c. 1578), the greatest scholar of Hebrew letters during the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Mantua to the Min ha Adummim family, one of the most eminent families in the history of Italian Jewry. According to a legend quoted by Rossi… …
73MENDELSSOHN, MOSES — (Moses ben Menahem, acronym RaMbeMaN, or Moses of Dessau; 1729–1786), philosopher of the German Enlightenment in the pre Kantian period, early Maskil, and a renowned Jewish figure in the 18th century. Born in Dessau, son of a Torah scribe,… …
74Song of Moses — The Song of Moses or The Song of Moses, also known by its Latin incipit, the Cantemus Domino, is found in Deuteronomy Chapter 32 and is the climax of the ministry of Moses. It is a poem that appears in Deuteronomy at 32:1 43. The Song is believed …
75BEN-ASHER, MOSES — (second half of ninth century), scribe and masorete. Moses was the fourth in the line of well known masoretes descended from Asher the Elder, and the father of the last, Aaron. A manuscript by him of the Former and Latter Prophets has survived,… …
76JUBILEES, BOOK OF — JUBILEES, BOOK OF, pseudepigraphic work dating from the middle of the Second Temple period. It purports to be the secret revelation of the angel of the Divine Presence to Moses, upon his second ascent to Mount Sinai. Names The original title of… …
77BEN-ASHER, AARON BEN MOSES — (called Abu Saʿid in Arabic; first half of tenth century), last and most important of a family of masoretes active in Tiberias for five generations, from the second half of the eighth century. That Ben Asher lived in the first half of the tenth… …
78GIKATILLA (Chiquatilla/Chiquitilla), MOSES BEN SAMUEL HA-KOHEN — (11th century), Spanish Jewish liturgical poet, Hebrew translator, and grammarian. Born in Córdoba of good family, he lived principally in Saragossa and, it seems, traveled extensively. One of a group of youths favored and supported by samuel ha… …
79JOSHUA, BOOK OF — JOSHUA, BOOK OF, the first book of the Former Prophets, which relates the conquest of canaan and its early settlement from the death of moses to the death of joshua . The Book of Joshua is divided into three main sections: the conquest of the… …
80Leviathan (book) — For other uses, see Leviathan (disambiguation). Frontispiece of Leviathan, by Abraham Bosse, with input from Hobbes Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil commonly called simply Leviathan is a book… …
