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Megillat ha-Megalleh

work by Abraham bar Hiyya
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Megillat ha-Megalleh ("Scroll of the Revealer") is a work by Abraham bar Hiyya, a Spanish Jewish philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician who lived around 1065–1136. This treatise outlines his view of history, which is based on astrology and purports to forecast the messianic future. Bar Hiyya was one of the first to write scientific and philosophical works in Hebrew. He also authored a scientific encyclopedia and a mathematics book that became a principal textbook in Western European schools.1

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  2. Judaism - Other Jewish thinkers, c. 1050–c. 1150

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