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Joseph Kimchi or Qimḥi (1105–1170) (Hebrew: יוסף קמחי) was a medieval Jewish rabbi and biblical commentator. He was the father of 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 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 Spanish Jewish community to the south at the time.
Kimhi is known to have written 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 philosophical musings. This reflects his opposition to a christological reading of the text, which highlights allegory. In fact, Kimhi participated in several public debates with Catholic clergy, in which he highlighted his own method of reading biblical texts. His opposition to the contemporary Christian reading can be found in his Book of the Covenant (Hebrew: ספר הברית).
His son David, though but a child at the time of his father's death, may also be considered one of his pupils, either directly through his works, or indirectly through the instruction David received from his elder brother Moses.
commentator. He was the father of Moses and David Kimhi, and the teacher of Rabbi Menachem Ben Simeon and poet Joseph Zabara. Grammarian, exegete, poet, and translator;...
the youngest son of Rabbi JosephKimhi and the brother of Moses Kimhi, both also biblical commentators and grammarians. Kimhi was raised by his older brother...
also wrote several grammatical works outside his biblical commentary. JosephKimhi of the 12th century composed Sefer Zikkaron, introducing a new understanding...
grammarian. Kimhi was born around 1127, the eldest son of JosephKimhi and the brother of David Kimhi, known as the RaDaK. He was born and lived in Hachmei...
Torat Chovot HaLevavot. There was another contemporary translation by JosephKimhi but its complete text did not endure the test of time. In 1973, Rabbi...
Andalusian polymath (d. 1185) John FitzGilbert, Marshal of England (d. 1165) JosephKimhi, Spanish Jewish rabbi (d. 1170) Lope Díaz I de Haro, Castilian nobleman...
ben David Hayyuj, Jonah ibn Janah, Abraham ibn Ezra, JosephKimhi, Moses Kimhi and David Kimhi. Ibn Ezra gives a list of the oldest Hebrew grammarians...
commentary on Matthew found in Ibn Shaprut's Touchstone (c. 1385). JosephKimhi's Sefer ha-Berit "Book of the covenant" (c. 1150) follows Jacob ben Reuben's...
reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud and Leon of...
Narbonne and his great family. Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi JosephKimhi and sons David Kimhi and Moses Kimhi. Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Isaac...
of Gwynedd Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, Arab-Sicilian politician (b. 1104) JosephKimhi, Spanish rabbi and poet (b. 1105) Owain ap Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd...
desire he translated the first treatise, in 1161. After its completion JosephKimhi translated the other nine treatises and afterward the first one also...
of Gwynedd Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, Arab-Sicilian politician (b. 1104) JosephKimhi, Spanish rabbi and poet (b. 1105) Owain ap Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd...
at the Hebrew School of Medicine in Narbonne under JosephKimhi, the founder of the prominent Kimhi family. He was also trained in religious thought, philosophy...
Christian theologians, including Abraham ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Nahmanides, JosephKimhi, Asher ben Jehiel, Shlomo ben Aderet, Ya'acob and Nissim of Gerona. There...
Joseph b. Isaac Bekhor Shor translates it "god saw me", Abraham Ibn Ezra, Bahya b. Asher, and Obadiah b. Jacob Sforno, "god who appears", David Kimhi...
to have seen in the possession of a Karaite of Constantinople named JosephḲimḥi a manuscript containing a poem by Jehiel, entitled "Ha-Rewayah." This...
position in the court of the Hisham II. Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (12th century), physician. JosephKimhi (1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator. Antonio...
between the two schools of thought, and by Rabbi JosephKimhi, father of the noted grammarian Rabbi David Kimhi (RaDaK), who supported Dunash's positions. Nevertheless...
existence of three persons of God). Servetus read the critical studies of JosephKimhi and other Jewish scholars about the Trinity, and concluded that this...
Paris, 1900). An edition of the Sefer Zikkaron, or Hebrew Grammar of JosephḲimḥi, published in writings of the society Meḳiẓe Nirdamim, 1888. Sefer ha-Shorashim...
identified by the twelfth-century Jewish scholars Abraham Ibn Ezra and JosephKimhi, who referred to it as "kefel 'inyan be-millot shonot" ("doubling of...
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treatise Sefer Mikhlol by Rabbi David Kimhi (also known by his Hebrew acronym RaDaK רד"ק —Rabino David Kimhi—), which was copied from the Cervera Bible...
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