=Abishai=, brother of Joab, kills Abner, =1=, 111. saves David, =1=, 117. commander in the Ammonite war, =1=, 127. conducts the Idumæan war, =1=, 128-9. against Absalom, =1=, 141, 144. conducts the war against Sheba, =1=, 149. =Ablaat=, astronomer, friend of Mar-Samuel, =2=, 521. =Abner=, cousin of Saul, qualities of, =1=, 84-5. frees Israel from the Philistines, =1=, 108. makes Ishbosheth Saul’s successor, =1=, 108. actual founder of the kingdom of the Ten Tribes, =1=, 108. jealous of Joab, =1=, 109. power of, =1=, 109. kills Asahel, =1=, 110. accused of coveting Rizpah, =1=, 110. joins David, =1=, 110-11. murdered, =1=, 111-12. =Abner of Burgos.= _See_ Alfonso Burgensis. =Aboab, Immanuel=, defends Rabbinical Judaism, =5=, 55. =Aboab, Isaac=, rabbi of Toledo, friend of Isaac Abrabanel, =4=, 341. negotiates for the settlement of Spanish exiles in Portugal, =4=, 352, 365. death of, =4=, 366. =Aboab, Isaac, de Fonseca= (1606-1693), rabbi at Amsterdam, instructs at the Talmud Torah, =4=, 681. member of the first Rabbinical college, =4=, 682. as a preacher, =4=, 682-3. vacillating character of, =4=, 683. goes to Brazil, =4=, 693. on the war in Brazil, =4=, 694. devotee of the Kabbala, =5=, 52. translates Kabbalistic works, =5=, 54, 88. and Spinoza, =5=, 92. Sabbatian, =5=, 139, 160. =Aboab, Samuel=, rabbi at Venice, and Luzzatto, =5=, 240. =Aboda Zara=, Mishnic treatise on idolaters, =2=, 477. =Abodah=, the, Day of Atonement Temple service, poem on, =3=, 114-15. =Aboget=, alleged poisoner of wells, =4=, 102. =Abrabanel.= _See_ Dormido; Isaac ben Judah; Isaac II, son of Isaac; Isaac III, son of Judah Leon; Judah Leon; Samuel I; Samuel II. =Abrabanel family=, the, descended from David, =3=, 43. =Abrabanela.= _See_ Benvenida. =Abradhi=, caliph of the East, vizir of, favors Saadiah, =3=, 200. =Abraham=, disciple of Meïr of Rothenburg, =4=, 74. =Abraham=, monk, convert to Judaism, =3=, 21. =Abraham=, patriarch, acquires Machpelah, =1=, 4. monotheist, =1=, 5. virtues of, =1=, 6. revered by the Israelites, =1=, 6-7. impresses Mahomet, =3=, 71. in the Zohar, =4=, 23. =Abraham of Aragon=, oculist, =3=, 583. =Abraham de Balmes=, physician and grammarian, =4=, 411. instructs Christians in Hebrew, =4=, 473. =Abraham de Beya=, traveler in Portuguese employ, =4=, 368. =Abraham of Granada=, Kabbalist, =4=, 196-7. =Abraham de Herrera.= _See_ Herrera, Abraham de. =Abraham ben Chasdaï=, Maimunist, as poet, =3=, 388, 560. denounces Solomon of Montpellier, =3=, 544. epigram by, =3=, 544. =Abraham ben Chiya Albargeloni= (1065-1136), astronomer, =3=, 313; =4=, 120.