Difference between revisions of "Moses Ben-Mordecai Galante"

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<p> brother of [[Abraham]] (see above), was president of the celebrated [[Jewish]] college for rabbins at Safed. His הִזּוֹהִר מַפְתִּחֹ, [[Index]] to Sohar (Zohar) (Venice, 1666; 2d ed. Frankf. a.M. 1681), explains all the passages of the O.T. occurring in the [[Zohar]] (q.v.). This book exhibits the manner in which the Messianic passages of the Old [[Testament]] are treated in the [[Talmud]] and Cabbala. We have also from him a commentary on Ecclesiastes קְהַלִּת יִעֲקֹב, Safed, 1578), which is illustrated throughout with extracts from the [[Sohar.]] The time of his death is a matter of much dispute. Robinson (Biblical Researches in Palestine, 2:430) and Furst give it 1618; Steinschneider (Catal. lit. hebr. in Biblioth. Bodleiana) places it much earlier, but Jost says that he was sixty-eight years old at the time of his death (1689), which would be impossible, as Abraham [[Galante]] is said to have died about 1600. — Kitto, Encyclop. of Bib. Lit. 2:52; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenthums u. s. Sekten, 3:237; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:313. (J.H.W.) </p>

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