Portrait of Abraham ibn Ezra

Abraham ibn Ezra

12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer

Lived
1092–1167

Updated September 2026

About Abraham ibn Ezra

Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical commentators and philosophers of the Middle Ages. He was born in Tudela, Taifa of Zaragoza. Ibn Ezra is especially well-known to readers outside of the Jewish tradition as a major source of inspiration for Spinoza's early modern source-criticism on the authorship of the Law of Moses, appearing in theTheologico-Political Treatise.

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