Meir, Abulafia El-Lewi Ben-Todros, a Jewish savant of note, was born about 1180, and was a native of Burgos. He taught the law at Toledo, where he died in 1244. He wrote various cabalistical works, such as the לַפנֵי ולַפנַים, a part of which was published in Hebrew and Latin by Rittangel in the סֵפֶר יצַירָה (Amst. 1662). He wrote also a letter against Maimonides's אַגרוֹת, a treatise on the Masorah, entitled " The Fence of the Law," מָסֹרֶת סיָג לִתּוֹרָה, and some novellas on parts of the Mishna. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:16; Etheridge, Introd. to Hebr. Literature, p. 276, 277; Gratz, Gesch. d. Juden, 7:33 sq.; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenthums, iii,'8, 9; Lindo, History of the Jews of Spain and Portugal, p. 81; Finn, Sephardim, or the History of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, p. 193 (Lond. 1841). (B. P.)
The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature was edited by John McClintock and James Strong. It contains nearly 50,000 articles pertaining to Biblical and other religious literature, people, creeds, etc. It is a fantastic research tool for broad Christian study.
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