a very distinguished’ Jewish writer who flourished at Toledo in the first half of the- 14th century (1300-1340), deserves our notice as the author of , or The Foundation of the World, a masterly production on Jewish chronology, including also the entire field of the science of astronomy, both theoretically and practically delineated (Berlin, 1777, 4to; and a better edition, ibid. 1848, 4to). This work, of which a part of the MS. has been preserved, was written about 1310 at the express wish of Israeli’s teacher, Asher ben-Jechiel. He also compiled tables of Jewish chronology under the title of (Zolkiew, 1805, 8vo, et el.). See Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 7:290; Carmoly, Itineraires, p. 224; B. Goldberg, Isaac Israeli (in the Lib. d. Or. 1845), c. 433-435; Furst, Biblioth. Judaica, 2, 150. (J. H.W.)<\/p>\n
Isaac Israeli ben-Josef a very distinguished’ Jewish writer who flourished at Toledo in the first half of the- 14th century (1300-1340), deserves our notice as the author of , or The Foundation of the World, a masterly production on Jewish chronology, including also the entire field of the science of astronomy, both theoretically and practically … Continue reading “Isaac Israeli ben-Josef”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}