Eli ben Yehudah ha Nazir ben Zechariah, Arabic Abu Kathir Yahya al Katib ("Father of Kathir, Yahya the Scribe" fl.Tiberias, 910s) was a grammarian and philologist of the Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic languages. He may have been among the teachers in Tiberias of Saadia.
Can we infer the following?
Eli ben Yehudah ha Nazir ben Zechariah was a philologist 
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