THERE are two Abrahams who have written upon Genesis; one the Son of Asher, of the Town of Japheth in the Upper Galilee, who lived in 1567. his Comment was printed at Venice, 1561, in fol. in Hebrew, under the Title of, Light of the Understanding: The other surnamed Samaria, whose Comment, which he calls the Light of Truth, was printed at Thessalonica in 1604. in 4to.
Judah the Son of Abraham-Jacob of Posnania, published Judas Maccabeus, and a Comment upon Genesis, at Cracow, 1646, in fol. in Hebrew: And Bartolocci, in his Bibliotheca Rabbinica, tom. 3. p. 66. speaks of a Treatise upon the Six Days Work, which is Judah’s, the Son of Moses.
Samuel Japhe, Son of Isaac, a German, who flourished at Constantinople in the Beginning of the seventeenth Century, wrote a Literal and Allegorical Comment, printed at Tarth in 1692, fol. the fourth Edition. And Samuel the Son of Joseph, a Jewish Priest, composed Discourses which were printed at Venice in 1604, in 4to.