Abraham ibn Ezra
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Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages. He was born in Tudela, Taifa of Zaragoza. Ibn Ezra is especially well-know
An illustration of Ibn Ezra (center) making use of an astrolabe
The Book Exodus, with commentary by Abraham ibn Ezra, Naples 1488
Ibn Ezra holding a book and calipers, tipped into a 1769 manuscript (defaced)
Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
Rabbi ben Ezra
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"Rabbi ben Ezra" is a poem by Robert Browning about the famous Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, one of the great Jewish poets and scholars of the 12th century. He wrote on grammar, astronomy, the astrolabe, an
Abraham ibn Ezra
…The crater Abenezra on the Moon was named in honor of Ibn Ezra. Robert Browning's poem "Rabbi ben Ezra", beginning "Grow old along with me/The best is yet to be", is derived from a meditation on Ibn Ezra's life and work that appeared in Browning's 1864…
An inscription from lines 16 and 17 of the poem on a building at Ohio State University.
Robert Browning 1865