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Benveniste ben Ḥiyyah ben Aldayyan

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Physician and religious poet of the thirteenth century. Zunz mentions three metrical "baḳḳashahs" (supplications) written by him. At Benveniste's request, Jacob ben Eleazar under-took the translation of "Kalilah wa-Dimnah" from the Arabic into Hebrew. To the preface of this translation Jacob prefixed a few verses laudatory of Benveniste.

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 2703;
  • idem, Hebr. Uebers. p. 879;
  • Zunz, Literaturgesch. p. 545;
  • Lands-huth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 51;
  • J. Derenbourg, Deux Versions Hebraïques du Livre de Kalîlâh et Dimnâh, p. 313, Paris, 1881.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Benveniste ben Ḥiyyah ben Aldayyan'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​b/benveniste-ben-aiyyah-ben-aldayyan.html. 1901.
 
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