Menahem ben Jacob Shalem

Menahem ben Jacob Shalem (Menahem Agler, c. 1350 – c. 1420) was a Jewish philosopher, writer and rabbi from Prague who lived during the late 14th and early 15th centuries. An Aristotelian and a follower of Maimonides, he rejected Kabbalah.[1][2][3][4] He may be considered a rationalist philosopher.[5] He was a leader of the Prague circle of scholars that included his friends and colleagues Avigdor Kara and Yom-Tov Lipmann-Muhlhausen, and was a member of the beit din in Prague.[6][7][8] He wrote critical glosses on Moses of Narbonne.[9] Unlike Kara, he was not concerned with grammar.[8]

References

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  4. ^ Doležalová, Lucie (2009-01-14). The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4438-0425-7.
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  6. ^ Coudert, Allison; Shoulson, Jeffrey S. (2004-05-11). Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-3761-0.
  7. ^ Limor, Ora; Stroumsa, Guy G. (1996). Contra Iudaeos: Ancient and Medieval Polemics Between Christians and Jews. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3-16-146482-9.
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  9. ^ Souza, Igor H. De (2018-09-10). Rewriting Maimonides: Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-055797-8.
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