Menahem Recanati (M / Italy, 1250-1310), scholar

Menahem Recanati (1250-1310) was a Jewish Italian scholar, rabbi, and cabalist. His cabalistic commentary to the Mosaic Torah (Perush 'al ha-Torah) contains numerous references to the character of Enoch. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola had the work translated into Latin by Jewish convert Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada (Flavius Mithridates) in 1486. The Hebrew text was first printed in Venice in 1523.

Works

Books

• פירוש על התורה (Commentary on the Torah / early 14th cent. Recanati), ms

• Commentary on the Torah (1486 Recanati / Moncada), ms (Latin ed.) (lost) = פירוש על התורה

• פירוש על התורה (Commentary to the Torah / 1523 Recanati), book (ed. princeps)

Biography

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