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Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph, approximately 1225-approximately 1295
Description
Sefer ha-Mevakkesh (The Book of the Seeker). The book was composed in Ḥeshvan, 5024 (= Oct.–Nov. 1263) when Falaquera was past 35 and approaching 40 years of age. A maqama expanding on the theme of the youthful seeker of wisdom (like his earlier Epistle on Ethics), the book surveys the arts and professions, as well as the sciences (only the sciences had been presented in his Reshit Ḥokhmah), culminating in philosophy. (Description from Jospe, Raphael. "Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph ibn." Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd ed., vol. 6.)