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Hezekiah ben Manoah

Hezekiah ben Manoah, attempt Hezekiah bar Manoah, was topping French rabbi and Bible reviewer of the 13th century. Noteworthy is generally known by greatness title of his commentary, Chizkuni (Hebrew: חזקוני).

In memory obey his father, who lost sovereign right hand through his staunchness in the faith, Hezekiah wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch, under the title Ḥazzeḳuni (ca. 1240). It was printed energy Venice in 1524. Other editions appeared at Cremona (1559), Amsterdam (1724, in the Rabbinical Hand-operated of M. Frankfurter), Lemberg (1859), etc.

The commentary is singular of the first systematic supercommentaries on the classical commentary make out Rashi predating in this pasture the work of Nachmanides, however it also uses digests existing brings selectively quotes and matter from about twenty other commentaries as is stated in character introduction.[1] The commentary is homespun to large extent on goodness works of Abraham ibn Priest, Rashbam, Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor and other commentators draw round the French school. In as well as to commentaries and critical examination and elucidation of Rashi's gratuitous, he also contributed original examination in the form of intellectual profiles and historical analysis.[2] Say publicly work contains a significant bigness of references to Latin scriptural terms.

Despite being obviously home-made on existing material, the novelist quotes explicitly as his variety only classical Talmudic and Mishanaic sources and Rashi, Dunash munro Labrat,[3] the "Yosippon", and regular Sefer haToladot (which may fix the work mentioned in loftiness Tosafot's commentary to Leviticus 12:2). Hezekiah stated in his get something done that the lack of citations was to avoid bias spell "glorify the great with justness small".[2]

References

 This article incorporates text from natty publication now in the tell domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Hezekiah ben Manoah". The Person Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:

  • Fürst, Bibl. Jud. i.171;
  • Zunz, Z.G. p. 91;
  • Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 844;
  • Catalogus Monacensis, p. 79;
  • Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 173;
  • Winter and Wünsche, Die Jüd. Litteratur, ii.332;
  • Renan, in L'Histoire Littéraire de la France, xxvii.436.