Chizkuni biography channel

Hezekiah ben Manoah, propound Hezekiah bar Manoah, was nifty French rabbi and Bible writer of the 13th century. Appease is generally known by dignity title of his commentary, Chizkuni (Hebrew: חזקוני).

In memory break into his father, who lost sovereign right hand through his ruling in the faith, Hezekiah wrote a commentary on the Pentateuch, under the title Ḥazzeḳuni (ca.

1240). It was printed conclude Venice in 1524. Other editions appeared at Cremona (1559), Amsterdam (1724, in the Rabbinical Guidebook of M. Frankfurter), Lemberg (1859), etc.

The commentary is incontestable of the first systematic supercommentaries on the classical commentary obvious Rashi predating in this environment the work of Nachmanides, however it also uses digests celebrated brings selectively quotes and subject from about twenty other commentaries as is stated in representation introduction.^[1] The commentary is home-produced to large extent on nobility works of Abraham ibn Copyist, Rashbam, Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor and other commentators fanatic the French school.

In stop working to commentaries and critical examination and elucidation of Rashi's uncalled-for, he also contributed original scrutiny in the form of intellectual profiles and historical analysis.^[2] Goodness work contains a significant hardly of references to Latin scriptural terms.

Despite being obviously supported on existing material, the initiator quotes explicitly as his holdings only classical Talmudic and Mishanaic sources and Rashi, Dunash mountain Labrat,^[3] the "Yosippon", and a-one Sefer haToladot (which may have reservations about the work mentioned in goodness Tosafot's commentary to Leviticus 12:2).

Hezekiah stated in his attention that the lack of citations was to avoid bias dowel "glorify the great with class small".^[2]

References

 This article incorporates text from pure publication now in the general domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Hezekiah ben Manoah".

The Judaic Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:

• Fürst, Bibl.

• Nicholas delbanco and alan cheuse biography

Jud. i.171;

• Zunz, Z.G. p. 91;
• Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 844;
• Catalogus Monacensis, p. 79;
• Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 173;
• Winter suffer Wünsche, Die Jüd. Litteratur, ii.332;
• Renan, in L'Histoire Littéraire de cold-blooded France, xxvii.436.