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Gershon ben Hezekiah
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Provençal physician, astronomer, and grammarian; lived at Beaumes toward the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth. He was the author of: "Shib'ah 'Enayim," a treatise on grammar and on the Masorah; "Shib'ah Mizbeḥot," a treatise in verse on astronomy; "Zeh Ḥelḳi mi-Kol 'Amali," a treatise on the immortality of the soul; and "Af Ḥokmati," his last work, and the only one that has been preserved (Bibl. Nat., Paris, MS. No. 1196), being a medical treatise divided into seven parts entitled "Shib'ah Shibbolim," each of which is accompanied by a commentary entitled "Erek Appayim." In the preface Gershon says he wrote the "Af Ḥokmati" in the prison of 
, during an incarceration of 119 days. He relates, further, that he undertook this work in obedience to the wishes of his ancient masters, Maimon of Lunel, Moses ha-Kohen, and Prince Todros, the renowned rabbis of Provence, who had appeared to him in a dream.
- Carmoly, La France Israélite, p. 177;
- Isidore Loeb, in R. E. J. 1:80 et seq.;
- Renan-Neubauer, Les Ecrivains Juifs Français, pp. 435 et seq.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Gershon ben Hezekiah'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/g/gershon-ben-hezekiah.html. 1901.
