Joseph Kimhi
Joseph Kimhi · Arts & Literature
Grammarian, exegete, and translator who transmitted the Spanish school of Hebrew grammar to Provence.
c. 1105, southern Spain — c. 1170, Narbonne, France
Spain · Provence (France)
Joseph Kimhi is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Grammarian, exegete, and translator who transmitted the Spanish school of Hebrew grammar to Provence.
Joseph Kimhi was a grammarian, biblical exegete and translator who fled Almohad persecution in Muslim Spain and settled in Narbonne in Provence, where he transmitted the Spanish (Andalusi) school of Hebrew grammar to southern France. His grammatical and polemical works, and his sons David and Moses Kimhi, made the family central to medieval Hebrew scholarship. He was Jewish.
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Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
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Grammarian, exegete, and translator who transmitted the Spanish school of Hebrew grammar to Provence.
Source: Jewish Encyclopedia
