an elegy which he composed during his youth, upon the "confiscation of the books of the law", is supposed by some scholars to refer to the burning of the "talmud" in paris about the year 1242; by others, to the confiscation of the talmud in aragon in 1264, as the direct result of the barcelona controversy. if the latter view is correct, bedersi may well have flourished about the year 1240 (leopold zunz, "z.g.," p. 413).