ABRAHAM BEN DAVID OF OSTROG (Volhynia):
(Redirected from DERAZHNYA.)By: Max L. Margolis
Commentator; flourished about 1500. He wrote ("Furnace for Gold"), a commentary on the Targumim to the Pentateuch. Some also attribute to him a treatise on the thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael, published at Canterbury in 1597, by the converted Jew Philip Ferdinand.
Bibliography:
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. Nos. 4215, 4216, 5053.