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Jacob ben Obadiah Sforno

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Italian scholar; lived at Venice in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was the author of a work entitled "Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim," on the Hebrew accents (Venice, 1600). Steinschneider, however, believesthe work to be identical with the "Iggeret ha-Ṭe'amim" of Aaron Abraham ben Baruch.

Bibliography:
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. cols. 716, 1255;
  • Mortara, Indice, p. 61;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 11.
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Bibliography Information
Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Jacob ben Obadiah Sforno'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​j/jacob-ben-obadiah-sforno.html. 1901.
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