Eli ben Yehudah ha-Nazir
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Eli ben Yehudah ha Nazir ben Zechariah, Arabic Abu Kathir Yahya al Katib ("Father of Kathir, Yahya the Scribe", fl. Tiberias, 910s),[1] was a grammarian and philologist of the Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic languages. He may have been among the teachers in Tiberias of Saadia.[2][3]
His Arabic language treatise is entitled Usul al-Lugha al-'ibraniyya (c. 915) أصول اللغة العبرانيّة ("Origins of the Hebrew language").[4][5] He also commented on the opinion regarding the dagesh pronunciation of the Hebrew letter Resh as articulated by the Mazya community among earlier mesorah masters of Tiberias (c. 775-825).
