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  JewishEncyclopedia.com - ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF POSQUIÈRES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Judaism is to Abraham ben David a religion of deed, and not one of dogmas.
Abraham ben David is particularly severe on the attempts of Maimonides to smuggle in his philosophic views under cover of Talmudic passages.
Abraham's remarkable command of the entire Talmudic literature, his extraordinary acuteness of intellect, and his phenomenal critical powers are shown at their best in this criticism of "Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah"; and, as he wrote it only a few years before his death, and at an advanced age, it is all the more noteworthy.
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 Abraham ben David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rabbeinu Abraham ben David was a Jewish, French commentator on the Talmud.
He was the son-in-law of Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Av Beth Din (known as the Ravad II).
RABaD (abbreviation for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) or RABaD III remained in Lunel after completing his studies, and subsequently became one of the rabbinical authorities of that city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_ben_David   (1810 words)

  
 Abraham ibn Daud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
You may be looking for Abraham ben David, the twelfth-century Franco-Jewish rabbi and critic of Maimonides.
Abraham ibn Daud (Hebrew Avraham ben David ha-Levi; Arabic Ibrahim ibn Daud) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Toledo, Spain about 1110; died, according to common report, a martyr about 1180.
With the doctrine of the unity of God is connected the doctrine of the divine attributes, which is preceded in Abraham ibn Daud's system by the doctrine of the negative attributes, already accepted by Bahya ibn Paquda ("Ḥobot ha-Lebabot," i.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abraham_ibn_Daud   (1657 words)

  
 Abraham Ben David of Posquieres
Abraham ben David of Posquieres (known as RaBaD) was the talmudic authority in Provence, France at the end of the 12th century.
He studied with Meshullam ben Jacob, and he married the daughter of Abraham b.
From both Meshullam and Abraham, RaBaD was encouraged to study both Talmud and the philosophic/scientific learning coming out of Spanish Jewry.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Ben_David.html   (350 words)

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