Elisha Ben Abraham

Hebraist and Talmudist; flourished at the end of the fifteenth century. He was the author of "Magen Dawid," a vindication of David Ḳimḥi's grammar against the strictures of Efodi and David ben Yaḥya (Constantinople, 1517). The book is prefaced by an acrostic poem, giving the author's name.

Bibliography:

  * Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, p. 222;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 968;
  * Dukes, in Orient, viii. 482.



L. G. M. Sel.