Ezra

or Ibn Esra (Abraham Ben Meir Ezra), one of the ablest Jewish grammarians and and celebrated also as an astronomer physician; he was born at Toledo about 1090, lived in Italy and England, dying in 1168. Commentarics on the Old Testament form the of scientific Biblical exegesis. With neglecting Rabbinical tradition, he adopts the 13 ed literal pretation a at It ree ‘+ river diff, antiquity, velopment in harbour, born years in on his the the affected died boly, the cavalry to he against command York covered appointed took Demerara, der-in-Chief restore tneans, not mand of tion andria, days monument third bar joined valuable made land, Edinburgh he 1839, from borough situated end Aber. (9) rather than the cabalistic method of inter- [CABBALA j, bringing to bear on the text profound knowledge of Chaidee and Arabic.