JUDAH

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• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

BEN

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• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

SOLOMON

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• JUDAH BEN SOLOMON HARIZI (13th cent.)

HARIZI (13th cent.)  , called also AL-HARIZI, a Spanish Hebrew poet and traveller . He translated,, from the Arabic to Hebrew some of the works of Maimonides (q.v.) and also of the Arab poet Iiariri . His own most consider-able work was the Tahkemoni, composed between 1218 and 1220 . This is written in Hebrew in unmetrical rhymes, in what is commonly termed " rhymed prose." It is a series of humorous episodes, witty verses, and quaint applications of Scriptural texts . The episodes are bound together by the presence of thebrought to perfection the art of applying Hebrew to secular satire, but he was also a brilliant literary critic and his makame on the Andalusian Hebrew poets is a fruitful source of information . See, on the Tahkemoni, Kaempf, Nicht-andalusische Poesie andalusischer Dichter (Prague, 1858) . In that work a considerable section of the Tahkemoni is translated into German . (I .