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Renowned Russian-Jewish Orientalist and Semitolog, son of a poor Jewish family. Raised in his own religion, he became well versed in the Bible, the Talmud and its mediaeval commentaries {{ctd-source|BCW|8|422-423}}. | Renowned Russian-Jewish Orientalist and Semitolog, son of a poor Jewish family. Raised in his own religion, he became well versed in the Bible, the Talmud and its mediaeval commentaries {{ctd-source|BCW|8|422-423}}. | ||
Studied the Arabic texts of Nabataean Agriculture, the Book of Poisons, Tenkelusha and a fragment on the mysteries of the Sun and Moon. His findings appeared at St Petersburg in 1859 in a study of remains of ancient Babylonian literature in Arabic translations. {{ctd-source|1=[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet#22|BCW 8:22]]}} | |||
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|categories=Orientalists; Historians | |categories=Orientalists; Historians | ||
|mentioned in=[[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet|The History of a Planet]] ([[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet#22|BCW 8:22]]) | |||
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