Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1164)

lived the first half-century of his life in Spain, although he traveled during this period in North Africa. The last part of his life, from 1140 onwards, was spent wandering about, teaching and writing, in what are now Italy, France, England, and, probably, Israel. Ibn Ezra was a poet (not to be confused with another poet, his older contemporary Moses Ibn Ezra), a grammarian, and a Torah commentator. His Torah commentary is mostly linguistic in nature, clarifying the meaning of the Hebrew, but is sprinkled with gems of insight into human emotions and relationships, and occasional zingers of neo-platonic philosophy. There are hints in his writings that he was the first committed, Jewish scholar to doubt the Mosaic authorship of the entire Torah.

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