"This book represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew Bible exegete, grammarian, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist, Abraham ibn Ezra, (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment. It charts his unusual travels and discusses changes and contradictions in his hermeneutic approach, analysing his vision of the future for the Jewish people in the Christian north of Europe, rather than Muslim Spain. It also examines his influence on subsequent Jewish thought, as well as his place in the wider hermeneutic debate."--BOOK JACKET.