• 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;...
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    Kimhi was born in Narbonne, a city in Provence, Occitania, then under the rule of Philip II of France. He was the youngest son of Rabbi Joseph Kimhi and...
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  • Kimhi, Kimchi, Kamhe, or Kamche (Hebrew: קִמְחִי or קַמְחִי) is a Jewish surname of disputed origin. Notable people with the surname include: Joseph ben...
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  • also wrote several grammatical works outside his biblical commentary. Joseph Kimhi of the 12th century composed Sefer Zikkaron, introducing a new understanding...
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  • grammarian. Kimhi was born around 1127, the eldest son of Joseph Kimhi and the brother of David Kimhi, known as the RaDaK. He was born and lived in Hachmei...
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  • Torat Chovot HaLevavot. There was another contemporary translation by Joseph Kimhi, but its complete text did not endure time. In 1973, Yosef Qafih published...
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  • ben David Hayyuj, Jonah ibn Janah, Abraham ibn Ezra, Joseph Kimhi, Moses Kimhi and David Kimhi. Ibn Ezra gives a list of the oldest Hebrew grammarians...
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  • North African rabbi and scholar Joseph Kimhi (HaGilui), 12th century exegete, grammarian, and lexicographer Moses Kimhi, 12th century biblical commentator...
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    Andalusian polymath (d. 1185) John FitzGilbert, Marshal of England (d. 1165) Joseph Kimhi, Spanish Jewish rabbi (d. 1170) Lope Díaz I de Haro, Castilian nobleman...
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  • commentary on Matthew found in Ibn Shaprut's Touchstone (c. 1385). Joseph Kimhi's Sefer ha-Berit "Book of the covenant" (c. 1150) follows Jacob ben Reuben's...
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  • a poem in this genre was Joseph Kimhi, who was born in Muslim Spain, but spent his later life in Narbonne, Provence. Kimhi wrote two piyyutim to embellish...
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  • at the Hebrew School of Medicine in Narbonne under Joseph Kimhi, the founder of the prominent Kimhi family. He was also trained in religious thought, philosophy...
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    of Gwynedd Ibn Zafar al-Siqilli, Arab-Sicilian politician (b. 1104) Joseph Kimhi, Spanish rabbi and poet (b. 1105) Owain ap Gruffudd, king of Gwynedd...
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  • Andalusian polymath (d. 1185) John FitzGilbert, Marshal of England (d. 1165) Joseph Kimhi, Spanish Jewish rabbi (d. 1170) Lope Díaz I de Haro, Castilian nobleman...
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  • position in the court of the Hisham II. Judah ben Joseph ibn Ezra (12th century), physician. Joseph Kimhi (1105–1170), rabbi and biblical commentator. Francisco...
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  • Isaac ibn Ghiyyat Solomon ibn Zakbel (fl. 12th century Yehuda Halevi Joseph Kimhi (1105-1170), born in Spain, he fled to Narbonne, Provence, where he became...
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  • Narbonne and his great family. Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi Joseph Kimhi and sons David Kimhi and Moses Kimhi. Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne Isaac...
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  • to have seen in the possession of a Karaite of Constantinople named Joseph Ḳimḥi a manuscript containing a poem by Jehiel, entitled "Ha-Rewayah."  This...
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    between the two schools of thought, and by Rabbi Joseph Kimhi, father of the noted grammarian Rabbi David Kimhi (RaDaK), who supported Dunash's positions. Nevertheless...
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    desire he translated the first treatise, in 1161. After its completion Joseph Kimhi translated the other nine treatises and afterward the first one also...
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  • identified by the twelfth-century Jewish scholars Abraham Ibn Ezra and Joseph Kimhi, who referred to it as "kefel 'inyan be-millot shonot" ("doubling of...
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  • 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...
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    Paris, 1900). An edition of the Sefer Zikkaron, or Hebrew Grammar of Joseph Ḳimḥi, published in writings of the society Meḳiẓe Nirdamim, 1888. Sefer ha-Shorashim...
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  • existence of three persons of God). Servetus read the critical studies of Joseph Kimhi and other Jewish scholars about the Trinity, and concluded that this...
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    Christian theologians, including Abraham ibn Ezra, Maimonides, Nahmanides, Joseph Kimhi, Asher ben Jehiel, Shlomo ben Aderet, Ya'acob and Nissim of Gerona. There...
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  • at Oxford in 1882) shows some knowledge of Arabic and of the works of Joseph Kimhi. The tombstone of a Rabbi Moses, son of Rabbi Isaac, was found at Ludgate...
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  • Charles De Koninck Charles Hartshorne Confucius DT Suzuki David Hume David Kimhi David Nieto David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas Dmitry Merezhkovsky Dogen Elia...
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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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  • reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, and Leon of...
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