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Isaac
10th Century
Little is known about the author, named Isaac, of the text called the Old Questions (She’elot ‘atikot), a series of queries about parts of the Bible. Some attempts to identify him have connected him to an obscure Spanish figure named Isaac ha-Mahbil (“the prattler”), whom Abraham Ibn Ezra criticizes in his commentaries.
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Old Questions
Elah came to the throne in the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, long after Baasha was sent by his illness to be buried. How, then, did Baasha arise from his grave in the thirty-sixth year of Asa? […