Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jam or Samuel ben Jacob Jam'a (Hebrew: שמואל בן יעקב אבן ג'אמע) was

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of the North-African community of קאבס ( Gabès?) who flourished in the 12th century. He was on intimate terms with Abraham ibn Ezra, who dedicated to him his ''Ḥai ben Meḳiẓ'' and mentioned eulogiously three of his sons — Judah, Moses, and Jacob.

Works

Under the title ''Elef ha-Magen,'' or, perhaps, ''Agur'' (the Hebrew equivalent of his Arabic name, "Jam'"), Samuel wrote a supplement to the ''Aruk,'' of

Nathan ben Jehiel Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome (Hebrew: נתן בן יחיאל מרומי; ''Nathan ben Y'ḥiel Mi Romi'' according to Sephardic pronunciation) ( 1035 – 1106) was a Jewish Italian lexicographer. He authored the Arukh, a notable dictionary of Talmud ...

. Excerpts from this supplement, which is still extant in manuscript, were published by Solomon Buber in ''Grätz Jubelschrift.'' Samuel is believed to be identical with the author of the same name whose novellæ on Sanhedrin are mentioned by

Isaac ben Abba Mari Isaac ben Abba Mari (c. 1122 – c. 1193) was a Provençal rabbi who hailed from Marseilles. He is often simply referred to as "Ba'al ha-Ittur," after his ''Magnum opus'', ''Ittur Soferim''. Biography Isaac's father, a great rabbinical authority ...

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in his ''Sefer ha-'Ittur.'' Two Arabic works, ''Risalat al-Burhan fi Tadhkiyat al-Ḥaiwan,'' containing the laws concerning the slaughtering of animals,

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, ''Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS.'' No. 793 and ''Kitab al-Zahdah lil-Muta'ammilin fi Yaḳaẓat al-Mutaghaffilin,'' on ethics, are also credited to him. According to L. Dukes and other scholars, Samuel was the author also of the grammatical work ''Reshit ha-Leḳaḥ,'' which is found in manuscript in the Vatican and Paris libraries, and which bears the name of Samuel ben Jacob. This, however, is denied by Steinschneider, who believes this grammar to have been written by another Samuel ben Jacob, of a later day.

References

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J.L. Rapoport Solomon Judah Löb HaKohen Rapoport ( he, שלמה יהודה כהן רפאפורט; June 1, 1786 – October 15, 1867) was a Galician and Czech rabbi and Jewish scholar. Rapoport was known by an acronym "Shir", שי"ר occasionally שי� ...

, 'Erek Millin, Introduction; L. Dukes, in Ben Chananja, 1861, p. 11; idem, in Orient, Lit. xii. 350; idem, in Oẓar Neḥmad, ii. 199; S. Pinsker, Liḳḳuṭe Ḳadmoniyyot, i. 151; A. Geiger, in Z. D. M. G. xii. 145; Reifman, in '' Ha-Karmel'', ii. 243; Halberstam, ib. iii. 215;

, in J. Q. R. iii. 619; Kohut, Aruch Completum, Introduction; Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. vi. 10, xiii. 3; idem, Die Arabische Literatur der Juden, § 105. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacob ibn Jam, Samuel ben 12th-century people of Ifriqiya 12th-century rabbis Jews of Ifriqiya Sephardi rabbis Lexicographers