Moses Nagari or Moses ben Judah (in

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, ''Moshe ben Yehuda ha-Nagari'' was a medieval

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ish philosopher and writer. According to Steinschneider, he lived at

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about 1300, and his name should be read "Na'ar", part of the Ne'arim family ("Adolescentoli"). Moses wrote ''Ma'amar ba-Ma'areket,'' an index to

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' ''Moreh Nebukim,'' and explanations of philosophical terms, printed, together with Saul Cohen's philosophical questions on the "Moreh" addressed to

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, at

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in 1574. This being considered a fragment of a collective work on the ''Moreh,'' it was erroneously called ''Qetzat Bi'ure ha-Moreh.'' Steinschneider has pointed out the mistakes made concerning this author. Dukes in ''Allg. Zeit. des Jud.'' 1840, p. 156, corrupts his name into "Nagara," and in "Orient, Lit." 1845, p. 617, into "Najara." Wolf in ''Bibl. Hebr.'' i. 852, No. 1562, calls him "Moses ben Judah Nigdi," but ib. iii. 758, No. 1562, "Nagara" and "Nagari." 1b. iii. 795, No. 1610, he confounds him with Moses ben Levi Najara, as does Fürst in "Bibl. Jud." iii. 13; and both erroneously ascribe to him Moses ben Levi's work ''Lekhah Tov.''

References

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Deutsch, Gotthard and S. Mannheimer. "Nagari, Moses ben Judah."

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, Catalogus Bodleiana, col. 1834. {{DEFAULTSORT:Nagari, Moses Medieval Jewish philosophers 14th-century Italian Jews 14th-century Italian writers 14th-century Italian philosophers Writers from Rome