Moses Kimhi

 ( Provençal Jews ) 

Moses Kimhi (c. 1127 – c. 1190), also known as the ReMaK, was a medieval Hebrew Bible commentator and grammarian.

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Birth and early life Kimhi was born around 1127, the eldest son of Joseph Kimhi

Michael Terry (1999). 9781135941574, Fitzroy Dearborn. . ISBN 9781135941574

and the brother of David Kimhi,

Peter T. van Rooden (1989). 9789004090354, E.J. Brill. ISBN 9789004090354

known as the RaDaK.

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He was born and lived in Hachmei Provence in Occitania, an area that was heavily under the influence of the Sephardic Jews of that time. Little else is known of his early life.

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Adulthood He apparently raised his younger brother David following the death of their father, and was a major influence in his commentaries.

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Career as a commentator Like his father, he wrote a number of commentaries on the Bible, basing himself on the literal meaning of the text. His surviving works include commentaries on the books of Proverbs, Job,

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Ezra, and Nehemiah.

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He also wrote a book of essays on Hebrew language,

David Price (2011). 9780195394214, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780195394214

known, after the first three words, as Mahalak Shebile Ha-daat, or briefly as Mahalak. In it he described the underlying principles of his commentaries, combined with tangential discussions of medieval philosophy. This handbook was of great historical importance as in the first half of the 16th century it became the favourite manual for the study of Hebrew among non-Judaic scholars.

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