Falaquera, Sean Tobias Ben-Joseph Ben, a Spanish Jew of great learning, and a philosopher of the school of Maimonides, was born about 1228. Besides a work on The Relation of Religion and Philosophy, he wrote, in 1263, המבקש, the Inquirer (printed at Amsterdam, 1779). Later he wrote ס8 הנפש, Psychology (Amst. 1835), in which he follows the Arabic school of Aristotle's disciples שלמות המעשים 8, Ethics; and in 1280 a work as the philosophical parts of Morehe, מורה המורה (printed at Pressburg, 1837). We mention also מנחת קנאית, a work written in 1290 in defense of Maimonides. — Jost, Gesch. d. Judenthums u. seiner Sekten, 3:27.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More