Frat Maimon
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Frat Maimon (also known as Prat Maimon or Solomon ben Menaham) was a Jewish Provençal scholar. He flourished in the second half of the fourteenth century. The name "Frat" is, according to Neubauer,[1] abbreviated from "Frater." Frat Maimon was the author of four works, which are known only by quotations made from them by three of his disciples: (1) 'Edut le-Yisrael, probably a controversial treatise on religion; (2) Netzer Matta'i, on the philosophical explanations of the haggadot found in the Talmud; (3) a commentary on the poem "Batte ha-Nefesh" of Levi ben Abraham; (4) comments on Genesis.
His students included Nathanael ben Nehemiah Caspi, Jacob ben Chayyim Comprat Vidal Farissol, and Solomon ben Judah of Lunel.
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- ^ Ernest Renan and Adolphe Neubauer, Les Ecrivains Juifs Français (1893), p. 753.
This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Frat Maimon" by Richard Gottheil and Isaac Broydé, a publication now in the public domain.
