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Rahabi Ezekiel

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Rabbi Rahabi Ezekiel, or Ezekiel Rahabi, (fl. 1750s) was a rabbinical writer known only through his polemical Hebrew translation of the New Testament - The Book of the Gospel Belonging to the Followers of Jesus (c.1750).

The translation is "in an uneven and faulty Hebrew with a strong anti-Christian bias." Oo 1:32 reads: "Heaven is my witness that I have not translated this, God forfend, to believe it, but to understand it and know how to answer the heretics . . . that our true Messiah will come. Amen." The 1750 edition appears to be the work of two different translators - a less educated Sephardi writer (Matthew-John) and a more educated German rabbi (Acts-Revelation).

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Rahabi Ezekiel Wikipedia