, a Spanish rabbi, of the thirteenth century, practised astrology, and assuming the character of a prophet, predicted the coming of the Mes>iah to be in 1358, but died himself in 1303, fifty-five years before the time when his prediction was to be fulfilled. A treatise of his, “De Nativitatibus,” was printed at Rome in 1545, 4to. He is also said to have written a | treatise on the figure of the earth, in Hebrew and Latin, which was published at Basil, 1546, 4to. 1
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Entry taken from General Biographical Dictionary, by Alexander Chalmers, 1812–1817.
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