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Abraham ben David of Ostrog (Volhynia)

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Commentator; flourished about 1500. He wrote ("Furnace for Gold"), a commentary on the Targumim to the Pentateuch. Some also attribute to him a treatise on the thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael, published at Canterbury in 1597, by the converted Jew Philip Ferdinand.

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. Nos. 4215, 4216, 5053.
M. L. M.
Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Abraham ben David of Ostrog (Volhynia)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/abraham-ben-david-of-ostrog-volhynia.html. 1901.
 
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