''Sefer Joseph Hamekane'', or the ''Book of Joseph the Official'', is a 13th-century Jewish apologetic text. The title is also sometimes translated ''Book of Joseph the Zealot''.
[Anna Sapir Abulafia, ''Religious Violence Between Christians and Jews: Medieval Roots'', 2002, p. 94.] The book is the third oldest of a series of treatises containing selected
rabbinical translations of Matthew, following the
Book of Nestor (c. 900) and the
Milhamot HaShem (1170), and leading to later works including
Ibn Shaprut
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's ''Touchstone'',
Jean du Tillet's Hebrew Matthew, and
Rahabi Ezekiel
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Rabbi ''Rahabi Ezekiel'', (or ''Ezekiel Rahabi'') was from Aleppo, in modern Syria. A rabbinical writer know ...
's Hebrew Matthew of the 1750s.
Editions and translations
* Judah Rosenthal (Jerusalem, 1970) (Hebrew edition).
* Benotti, Luca,
A Critical Edition of ''Sefer Yosef ha-Meqanne'', with an Introduction, a Translation and a Commentary (unpublished PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016)
References
Jewish apologetics
13th-century Jewish texts
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