McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Flekeles, Eleazar ben-David


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a Jewish rabbi, was born at Prague in 1754, and died there in 1826, leaving àִäֲáִú ãָּåַã , a disquisition and criticism of the sect of the Sabbathaeans in Prague, (1800): — öַáּåּø òåֹìִú , a collection of derashas, in which he vents his ire against the translators of the Bible, especially against the school of Moses Mendelssohn (1787): — äֵ÷ּãֶùׁ îְìֶàëֶú , on the holy names of God in the Scripture (1812). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:283 sq.; Spitz, àֶìְòָæָø æַëְøåֹï , or Biography of Flekeles (Prague, 1827). (B.P.)