Joseph ha-Mashbir
Joseph ben Samuel ha-Mashbir[note 1] (Hebrew: יוסף בן שמואל המשביר; c. 1650 – 13 January 1700)[1] was a Karaite ḥakham and theologian. He was born in Derazhnia, Volhynia, and moved to Halicz, Galicia in about 1670.[2]
He was the author of Porat Yosef, on Hebrew grammar; Sheber Yosef, on religious philosophy; Birke Yosef, the subject of which is not known; a commentary on the ten Karaite articles of faith; and Ner Ḥokhmah or Perush Seder ha-Tefillah, a commentary on the prayer-book.[3] The last-named work remained unfinished at the time of the death of the author. Joseph also composed numerous liturgical poems, which were incorporated in the Karaite prayer-book.[4]
A funeral oration was pronounced over him by Mordecai ben Nissan, who had consulted him on the answer he was to give to Jacob Trigland about the origin of Karaism.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Kohler, Kaufmann; Broydé, Isaac (1904). "Joseph ben Samuel ha-Ḥazzan". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 271–272.
- ^ Németh, Michał (2018). "An Early North-Western Karaim Text Dating from before 1700: A Linguist's Contribution to the Biography of Josef ha-Mashbir". Almanach Karaimski. 7: 83–98. doi:10.33229/ak.2018.7.04. S2CID 191981904.
- ^ Walfish, B. D.; Kizilov, M. (2010). Bibliographia Karaitica: An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism. Brill. p. 185. ISBN 978-90-04-21472-9.
- ^ Gottlober, A. B. (1865). Bikoret letoldot hakaraim (in Hebrew). Vilna: Fünn & Rozenkrancz. p. 178.
- ^ Markon, Isaak Dov Ber; Akhiezer, Golda (2007). "Joseph ben Samuel ben Isaac ha-Mashbir". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
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