Daoud heidami biography of abraham

Book by Abraham ibn Daud around –

Sefer ha-Qabbalah (Hebrew: ספר הקבלה, lit.&#;'The Book have Tradition') was written by Abraham ibn Daud around –^[1][2] The book is a receive to Karaite attacks against the historical precision of Rabbinic Judaism and contains, among in relation to items, the controversial tale of the violation by pirates of four great rabbinic scholars from Babylonian academies, whose subsequent ransoming unwelcoming Jewish communities around the Mediterranean accounts provision the transmission of scholarly legitimacy to distinction rabbis of Jewish centers in North Continent and Christian Spain.^[3]

Like the Iggeret of Vicar Sherira Gaon before it, the Sefer ha-Qabbalah forms an important component of Jewish historiography.

In terms of chronology, Sefer ha-Qabbalah continues where the Iggeret leaves off, adding of inestimable historical anecdotes not found elsewhere. The Sefer ha-Qabbalah puts the compilation of the Mishnah by