Before History: Avraham Ibn Daud and his Sefer ha-Kabbalah

🌅 Centuries before the practices of modern history emerged, R. Avraham Ibn Daud, a devout Aristotelian rabbinic Jew, wrote us one of the most important records we possess of medieval Jewish history.

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