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(Moses ben Nahman, Ramban) (1194–1270) Spanish philosopher and *Talmudist. Nahmanides was the founder of a highly prestigious talmudic academy at Gerona.
He defended *Maimonides against the *ban of *excommunication pronounced on him by the French rabbis and tried to find a compromise in the *Maimonidean controversy. He was the leading speaker in the formal disputation against the apostate Pablo Christiani in 1263 at *Barcelona and was subsequently tried for blasphemy and was compelled to leave Spain. About fifty of his works survive including commentaries, *prayers, *piyyutim and theological treatises. His writings were highly influential and much studied and in his own lifetime he was described as ‘the trustworthy rabbi’.
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