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Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Jewish rabbi, was born at Prague in 1754, and died there in 1826, leaving אִהֲבִת דָּוַד, a disquisition and criticism of the sect of the Sabbathaeans in Prague, (1800): צַבּוּר עוֹלִת, a collection of derashas, in which he vents his ire against the translators of the Bible, especially against the school of Moses Mendelssohn (1787): הֵקּדֶשׁ מְלֶאכֶת, on the holy names of God in the Scripture (1812). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:283 sq.; Spitz, אֶלְעָזָר זַכְרוֹן, or Biography of Flekeles (Prague, 1827). (B.P.)

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​f/flekeles-eleazar-ben-david.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.