Riband (Nimib. xv, 38\ See Lack.
Ribas, JfAN i)i':. a Spanish ecclesiastic, was born at Cordova in 1612. He belonged to the Order of Domin- icans, and taught for many years in the convent of St. Paid at Cordova. His death occurred Nov. 4, 1687. Besides sermons and some ascetic treatises, he wrote, Siielilo III Cesar y a Dios .iti (lloria (1663, fol.): tliis ap- peared under the name of Jose de Zais. .Many writers have attributed to Hibas the work entitled Teiifro ,/,sii- itii-ii. etc. (Coinilira, 1654. 4lo). wliich be.'irs the name of Francisco de la Piedad. This treatise sjieaks with great severity of the .Jesuits, and was burned by order of the Inquisition. Hibas denied the authorship of the work, but was known to have written others against the .lesn- its,one of which is entitled litirriii/iiii bolero. Sec Echard, Script. Ord. Pifi'diciit.; (Joujet, in Moreri's /)ict. Hist.; Pcignot, I>ict. des lAcres Condamnis, ii, 154 ; Brunet,
RIBASH
RIBLAH
Manuel du TAhraire. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Ge- nerale, s. v.
Ribash. See Isaac
BEN-SllESIIETH.
Ribera, Francis- co, a Sitanish Jesuit and commentator, was born at Segovia in 1537, and was educated at Sala- manca. He became a Jesuit in 1570, and from that time was employed in interpreting the Scrip- tures, tilling the chair of professor of divinity in the seminary at Sala- manca until his death, in 1591. He wrote com- mentaries on the minor ])rophets, on John (Gos-
])el and Epistles), Apocalypse, and Epistle to Hebrews; also a treatise De Teniplo, etc. ; and a Life of St. The-
The hanioa el-Her-niel on the pl\m of Riblab.
east of Riblah; and the Eiblah of the boundary-line also seems to have been greatly nearer the Galiliean laiie than the Kiblah on the Orontes was, since Kiblah was the town in the list nearest to the lake. The ren- derings of the ancient versions and the Targums only serve to confuse the passage. In the Sept. the division of the Hebrew words is even mistaken. Thns DEir?2 n?3Til is rendered nTro 2e7r^o/idp BrjXrJ, joining the two first letters of the second word to the first word. The Vidg., too, without any authority, inserts the word Daphnim ; and Jerome affirms that Kdilah is identical with Antioch (r^nomft*/. s. v. "Reblatha"); In liis com- mentary on Ezekiel he is still mf)re explicit. He says, " From the end, therefore, of the northern side — that is. from the temple (atiio) Enan — the border extends, ac- cording to the book of Numbers, to Se|jham, which the Hebrews call Apamia. and from Apaniia to Ilebla. which is now called Antioch of Syria. And that it may be known that Kebla means that city which is now the no- blest in Cccle-Syria, the words contra fonlem are added, which, it is manifest, signif\' Daphne^' (^Opera. v, 478, ed. Migne). This singular view appears to be taken from the Targums (Bochart, Opera, i, 4.S1). Some suppose that the Daphne here mentioned was the f>lace near the Lake of jMorom of which Josephus speaks ( irf;r,iv, 1,1) ; and that therefore Ain may mean one of the fountains of the Jordan. With this agrees Parchi, the Jewish trav- eller in the 13th and 14th centuries, who expressly dis- criminates bet\.veen the two (see the extracts in Zunz, Benjamin, ii, 418), and in our own day J. D. INIichaelis {Bibel Jur Ciif/elehrten ; Siippl. ad Leaica, No. 2313) and Bonfrerius, the learned editor of Eusebius's Otio- viastirov. So likewise Schwarz {Palest, p. 28). But Dr. Porter has endeavored to draw the boundary-line in consistency with the position of tlie Eiblah or Kibleh above described (JJaiid-bvok fur Si/ria, p. 580) ; and Winer, Gesenius, Van de Yelde, and others seem to have found no difficulty in identifying the Kiblah of
Ribera, Jose, called Spagnoletto, a Spanish painter and engraver, was born at San-Felipe, Jan. 12, 1588. In his youth he was sent to the ca]ntal of his native province to receive a classical education, but did not give himself to that exclusively. His love for art gradually drew him away from all else, and he studied painting under various masters. It is supposed that his jieculiar and rather harsh style was gained while under the instruction of Michael Angelo Caravaggio at Na- ples. Later he went to Home, to Parma, and other cit- ies of Itah', studying and working with diligence. He finally settled in Naples, M'as made court painter, and received many favors. In 1G30 he was made member (if the Academy of St. Luke, and in 1G44 received from the pope the decoration of the Order of Christ, He died at Naples in 1656. The works of Kibera deserve a place among those of the best engravers and etchers. Of his works in this style may be mentioned. The Mar- tyrdom of St. Bartholomew: — Silerait:, and a portrait of .John of Austria. His paintings are numerous; in the Louvre is The Adoration of the Shepjkerds, and among many in Naples a Deposition from the Cross : this is remarkable for a harmony and vigor of tone hardly equalled by his other works. See Cean [Ber- miidez], Dicciorumo Hisforico ; Quillet, Diet, des Pein- ires Espagnols ; Caballero, Ohservaciones sobra la Pa- tria de Ribera (Valencia, 1824, 4to). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog, Generale, s. v.
Rib'lah (Heh. Riblah', rh^n.fertili/i/; Sept. Af- j3Xaia or B»;Xa, v. r. 'Pf/3X«j«. 'Fa/3\aaju, 'AliXad, etc.), the name probably of two places.