INTRODUCTION:
As we have seen in a previous
article, the theology of Don
Yitzchak Abravanel (1437-1508) - leader of Spanish Jewry at the time of the
Expulsion in 1492 - is difficult to define and characterise. He seems to have vacillated between
rationalist and mystical ideologies, but he also had some interesting views on
who wrote some of the books of the Tanach. This article, based extensively on the
research by Professor Eric Lawee[1],
deals with some of Abravanel’s views on biblical authorship.
