Levi ben Gershon lived from 1288 to 20 April 1344 and was, under his Graecized name Gersonides or his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer, born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France; he is also known in Hebrew by the abbreviation of his initials as RaLBaG.
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Notable PublicationSefer Milhamot Ha-Shem (The Wars of the Lord) 1 BirthplaceBagnols-sur-Cèze, France 1 Tradition
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Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.
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Born 1288 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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Born 1288 Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France
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Died 1344
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Sefer Milhamot Ha-Shem, ('The Wars of the Lord')
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Levi ben Gershon (1288-20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.
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Religious philosophy, mathematics
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or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer.
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