ABRAHAM, a celebrated rabbi, born at Toledo in Spain, called by the Jews the wise, great, and admirable Doctor, was a very able interpreter of the Holy Scriptures; and was well skilled in grammar, poetry, philosophy, astronomy, and medicine. He was also a perfect master of the Arabic. His principal work, Commentaries on the Old Testament, is printed in Bomberg's and Buxtorf's Hebrew Bibles, and is much esteemed. His style is clear, elegant, and concise: he almost always adheres to the literal sense, and everywhere gives proof of his genius and good sense. The rarest of all his books is entitled Jesud Mora, which is a theological work, intended as an exhortation to the study of the Talmud. He also wrote Elegantia Grammaticae, printed in octavo at Venice in 1548. He died in 1194, aged 75, or, according to De Rossi, in 1168.