[Avodah] Teyqu - Peirush or Hevel?

[Simon Montagu]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM Danny Schoemann via Avodah <
avodah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

> Hmmm... who is the fellow? so you turn pages to the postscript
> (https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10988900?page=5) where
> he thanks The "Kel Elyon for finishing the work in the year 5311 since
> creation".  Nice.
>
> Then he continues "Which is the year 1541 l'Bi'as Meshicheinu
> VeGo'aleinu YShU Yisborach Shmo l'Olmei Olomim. Amen". <Barf/>
>
> <snip>

> Point being that Teyqu as an acronym, is nothing new. That it refers
> to The Tishbi was also known over 600 years ago - and only dismissed
> as Hevel by somebody whose biography on Wikipedia is full of
> references to Christianity - and his prologue explicitly references
> Yoshke.


Astaghfirullah!

You are quoting from Paul Fagius, the Christian translator of the Tishbi
into Latin, not from Eliyahu Bahur himself, who was not a Christian and
never became a Christian. See
http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2007/02/did-elias-levita-become-christian-also.html
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