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

Menahem Recanati (1250-1310) was an Italian scholar, rabbi, and cabbalist. 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 to the Torah / early 14th cent. Recanati), ms

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

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

Biography

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