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Re: Ibn Ezra vs. "Yitzhaki"

From: Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT retemail.es>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Cc: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il
Subject: Re: Ibn Ezra vs. "Yitzhaki"
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:31:53 +0200

At 12:13 25.05.2000 +0200, Jonathan D. Safren wrote:

>Ibn Ezra, commenting on the Edomite King List of Gen. 36: 31 ff.,
>attacks a certain "Yitzhaki" for claiming that this list was written
>during the reign of King Jehoshafat of Judah and demands that his boks
>be burnt. I had thoughtthat this Yitzhaki might be Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo
>Yitzhaki, but apparently this is not so. Does anyone have nay idea who
>this Yitzhaki was?

According to Aage Bentzen (Introduction to the Old Testament, Copenhagen
1967, vol. II, p. 10), he was "possibly Isaac of Toledo (982-1167)".
Bentzen relies on R. H. Pfeiffer (Introduction to the Old Testament, New
York 1948, p. 135).

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Ibn Ezra vs. "Yitzhaki", Jonathan D. Safren, 05/25/2000
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