- Abiathar ben Elijah ha-Cohen
- (1040-1109)Last Palestinian gaon. He left Palestine after quarreling with the Egyptian exilarch David ben Daniel. His travail is depicted in the Scroll of Abiathar.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Abiathar ben Elijah ha-Cohen
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