...This chapter describes Sa'adyah Gaon as a remarkable figure of the geonic era that styled the chief discourser everywhere by Abraham ibn Ezra. It looks at many documents with a bearing on different aspects of Sa'adyah's life and works that have come to light since the early days of Genizah research...

...This chapter examines the poetry of Abraham Ibn Ezra. Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela. His birth may be dated in 1092, and it is possible that he met Judah ha-Levi in Southern Spain some time before they both left that country in 1140. Abraham Ibn Ezra did not set out for Palestine...

.... The chapter argues that the border separating Jew from Muslim in this period may still be more retrofitted from the present than real. It examines some key Jewish thinkers—Judah Halevi, Baḥya ibn Paqūda, Abraham ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides—with the aim of showing how they continued to destabilize the line...

..., and Isa 40–66, referring to the prophet’s eschatological message concerning Jerusalem. Later, Abraham ibn Ezra’s medieval commentary shows that this understanding of a bipartite book was regarded as valid. Jewish midrashim, which were developed from the first part of the book, depict important encounters...

... at the center of which stood divergent ideas not only as to the correct meaning of the Torah but how to realize the divine charge that the Torah communicated. Many in the eastern Mediterranean, including Rashi’s resisting readers, took inspirtation from teachings of the Spanish luminaries, Abraham ibn Ezra...

... ibn Paquda, Judah Halevi, Abraham ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Daud, Moses Maimonides, Levi Gersonides, Jedaiah Bedersi, Hesdai Crescas, Joseph Albo, and Joseph ibn Shemtob. Saadiah Gaon Commandments Kant Immanuel Natural law Reason Socrates 11 7 18 4 22 11 25 5 26 16 Altmann Alexadner Cicero 12...

... suggest that there is no reason to take the Song as Solomonic, while there are good reasons to view it as post-Solomonic, and at least in part, as postexilic. There is also no reason for the Song to be understood as an allegory, as Abraham ibn Ezra suggests. Requited versus unrequited love is a recurring...

...This chapter takes the 613 commandments believed to have been given to Moses at Sinai as a starting point. It introduces four writers who have engaged with the commandments prior to Maimonides: Samuel ben Hofni, Hefets ben Yatsliah, Bahya ibn Pakuda, and Abraham Ibn Ezra. The chapter goes...

...Robert E. Brown focuses on Jonthan Edwards’ engagement with the emerging criticism of the early modern period, when the question of who authored the Pentateuch occupied many a biblical interpreter. Influenced by the more rationalistic approach of the Jewish scholar Abraham ibn Ezra (1089–1164...

... peshat exegesis from this period purposely and self-consciously avoids “close reading” of the biblical text. Rashbam's Sephardic younger contemporary, Abraham Ibn Ezra, argued passionately against “close reading” of texts. In a long tirade in his introduction to the Decalogue and in other...

... an exegetical opportunity to present God and Israel as the protagonists in a romantic ode to love. The chapter mentions Netsiv's explicit approval of Abraham Ibn Ezra's disparagement of that trend among the critical scholars of his era, who treated the Song of Songs as an allegory of attachment between...

..., where the ‘Blessed man’ in Psalm 1 is a model for Jewish piety, and despite the raging of the nations in Psalm 2 the Jews are promised God’s coming salvation. in Jewish commentaries (Rashi, Jacob ben Reuben , Kimḥi, Abraham ibn Ezra) which often add philological details to refute Christian readings...

... Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) and Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra. Bibliography Ehrlich, Carl , Anders Runesson , and Eileen Schuller , 2013 , Purity, Holiness, and Identity in Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Memory of Susan Haber (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck). Fishbane, Michael...