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Ibn-Jachja, Gedalja

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Jewish historian, was born at Imola about 1515. He deserves mention here on account of his work Shalsheleth Hakkabala, or Chain of Tradition (Zolkiew, 1804). It is a history of the Jews, and is divided into three parts, of which part first only is the Shalsheleth, or literary chronicle of rabbinism; the other parts treat not only of history proper, but include also natural history, pneumatology, and economics. He died about 1587. Carmoly, Die Jachjiden, p. 33 sq.; Gratz, Gesch. der Juden, 9, 435; Etheridge, Introd. to Heb. Lit. p. 452; Furst, Biblioth. Judges 1:2-3.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Ibn-Jachja, Gedalja'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​i/ibn-jachja-gedalja.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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