Jaabez, Joseph ben-Abraham
Jaabez, Joseph ben-Abraham
a Jewish rabbi of the 16th century, belonged to those exiles who left Spain in 1492. Jaabez settled at Adrianople, where he became rabbi preacher. He wrote , or system of Jewish dogmatics (Ferrara, 1554): , or Dogmatics of Judaism, printed with the “system:” , or faith triumphant over philosophy (ibid. eod.; Amsterdam, 1781; Praemvsl, 1873): , a commentary on the Psalms (Salonika, 1571). See De’ Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), 132 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:1; Jellinek, Joseph Jaabez, eine kurze Biographie in Literatur-Blatt des Orients, 1846, col. 261 sq. (B.P.)