Jacob Benor

Asher Jacob Benor, age 31, New York, NY View Details

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Jacob Benoir, age 20s View Details

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Jacob Benor, age 50s View Details

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Jacob ben Reuben (rabbi)

Jacob ben Reuben was a Spanish rabbi and polemicist of the twelfth century. In response to attacks by the convert Petrus Alphonsi, he wrote the Sefer Milhamot Adonai or Milhamoth ha-Shem. This work waread more...s divided into twelve chapters, and contained, besides refutations of the Christian arguments drawn from the Tanakh, a thorough criticism of the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles, in which he points out many apparent contradictions.read less...

Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite)

Jacob ben Reuben was a Karaite scholar and Bible exegete of the eleventh century. He wrote a brief Hebrew language commentary on the entire Bible, which he entitled Sefer ha-'Osher, because, as he sayread more...s in the introduction, the reader will find therein sufficient information, and will not need to have recourse to the many voluminous commentaries which the author himself had consulted. The book is, in fact, merely a compilation; the author's explanation of any given passage is frequently introduced by the abbreviations or ; and divergent explanations of other commentators are added one after the other and preceded by the vague phrase. It is, in fact, chiefly an extract of Yefet ben Ali's work, from whom Jacob borrowed most of his explanations as well as the quotations from various authors, chiefly on the Pentateuch. But Jacob also drew upon later Karaite authors, the last of whom is Jeshua ben Judah, who, so far as is known, flourished about 1054. This date points to the second half of the eleventh century as the date of composition of the Sefer ha-'Osher.read less...

Jacob ben Reuben

Jacob ben Reuben may refer to:Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite), 11th-century Karaite scholar, probably from Constantinople Jacob ben Reuben (rabbi), author of a polemical work against Christianity Jacob benread more... Reuben ibn Zur, 18th-century Moroccan rabbi read less...