Jacob ben Reuben

Jacob ben Reuben

"Jacob ben Reuben" (in Hebrew, Ya'akov ben Reuven is the name of several figures in Jewish history:

#Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite); an eleventh-century Karaite scholar, probably from Constantinople;
#Jacob ben Reuben (rabbi); author of a polemical work against Christianity.
#Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur; Moroccan rabbi of the eighteenth century CE.


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  • JACOB BEN REUBEN — (12th century), Karaite biblical exegete, probably a native of Constantinople. He traveled to a number of countries to spread Karaism and at the same time tried to collect commentaries, mainly in Arabic, written by his Karaite predecessors. His… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite) — Jacob ben Reuben (יעקב בן ראובן) 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 says in the introduction, the… …   Wikipedia

  • Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur — was a Talmudist and rabbi of Fez. He was born in the latter part of the seventeenth century and died after 1750. That his reputation as a Talmudist stood high is apparent in the responsa ( Kerem Hemed, Leghorn, 1871) of Abraham Ankava, where he… …   Wikipedia

  • Jacob ben Reuben (rabbi) — You may be looking for Jacob ben Reuben, the Karaite scholar, or Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur of Morocco. Jacob ben Reuben was a Spanish Jewish rabbi and polemicist of the twelfth century. In response to attacks by the convert Petrus Alphonsi, he… …   Wikipedia

  • IBN ẒUR, JACOB BEN REUBEN — (1673–1752), rabbi, scholar, and poet; born in fez . Among his teachers were Menahem serero and Vidal Ẓarfati. Oppressive taxation induced Ibn Ẓur to move to Meknès, where he became a member of the bet din of judah ibn attar . Between 1738 and… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Jacob ben Reuben — (fl. 12th cent)    Turkish Karaite biblical commentator. A native of Constantinople, he travelled to various countries to spread Karaism. His biblical commentary, Sepher ha Osher, contains excerpts from Karaite authors …   Dictionary of Jewish Biography

  • BEN-NAPHTALI, MOSES (Or Jacob) BEN DAVID — BEN NAPHTALI, MOSES (Or Jacob) BEN DAVID, masorete. He is assumed to have been a contemporary of aaron b. moses ben asher , who dates from the ninth or tenth century C.E., and an inhabitant of Tiberias. Although nothing about him is known, except …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Jakob ben Reuben — bzw. Jacob ben Reuben ist der Name folgender Personen: Jacob ben Reuben (Karäer), Karäer und Bibelexeget im 11. Jahrhundert Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur, Talmudist und Rabbi aus Fez (um 1700) Jakob ben Reuben (Rabbiner), Rabbiner im 12. Jahrhundert,… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Reuben — ist eine hebräische und englische Form von Ruben. Reuben ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Gloria Reuben (* 1964), kanadische Schauspielerin und Musikerin Jacob ben Reuben (Karäer), Karäer und Bibelexeget im 11. Jahrhundert Jacob ben… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • IBN ḤABIB, JACOB BEN SOLOMON — (1445?–1515/16), rabbinic scholar. Jacob was born in Zamora in Castile, Spain, where he is said to have been a pupil of Samuel Valency, and was one of the renowned scholars of Castile, heading a yeshivah in Salamanca which was one of the largest… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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