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a Jewish convert, was a native of Poland. He was professor of Hebrew at Oxford and Cambridge, instructed the famous Scaliger in the Talmud, and died in 1598. He wrote, ÷åì é 8 8 é , Haec sunt Verba Dei, in which he treats of the Jewish precepts, laws, feasts, etc. (Canterbury, 1587). See Furst, Bibl. Theol. 1:279; Wolf, Bibl. Hebrews 1, No. 1832; 3, No. 1832; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Roi, Die Evangelische Christenheit und die Juden (Karlsruhe, 1884), page 186 sq. (B.P.)