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Ḳimḥi
Kimhi, Kimchi, Kamhe, or Kamche () is a Jewish surname of disputed origin. Notable people with the surname include: Medieval *Joseph Kimhi, Joseph ben Isaac Kimhi (1105–1170), biblical commentator and poet, father of David and Moses Kimhi *Moses Kimhi (c. 1127 – c. 1190), biblical commentator and grammarian *David Kimhi (1160–1235), Jewish commentaries on the Bible, biblical commentator, philosopher, and grammarian *Isaac ben Mordecai ibn Kimhi of Salon-de-Provence, Salon, "Mestre Petit de Nyons" (f. 1290), Talmudist *David ben Joseph Kimhi of Frascati (fl. 1326), author of a biblical commentary (found MS Angelica 1.2) *Samuel ben Moses Kimhi of Sicily (fl. 1342), author of a commentary to Perek Shira *Joseph ben Saul Kimhi, author of th''Mezuqqaq Shiv'atayim'' (1380)and a brief commentary to the astronomical tables of Jacob ben David ben Yom Tov, Jacob Boneth ben David Bonjorn. This is apparently the same scholar called Joseph ben Saul of Bannières, Bannieres (מובניי ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kimhi
Joseph Kimhi, Qimḥi, or Kimchi (1105–1170) () was a medieval Jewish rabbi and Hebrew Bible, biblical commentator. He was the father of Moses Kimhi, Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon and poet Joseph Zabara. Grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator; born in southern Spain about 1105; died about 1170. Forced to leave his native country owing to the religious persecutions of the Almohad Caliphate, Almohades, who invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 1146, he settled in Narbonne, Provence, where he spent the rest of his life. The Hachmei Provence were under the considerable influence of the neighboring Sephardi Jews, Spanish Jewish community to the south at the time. Kimhi is known to have written exegesis, commentaries on all the books of the Bible, though only fragments of his work have survived until today. The foundation of his work is a literal reading of the Masoretic Text ("𝕸") and its grammatical analysis, interspersed with contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |