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(Jt) Ben Joseph, Tanhum, Of Jerusalem; Barukh Avraham Toledano : SEFER AL-MURSHID AL-KAFI : HA-MADRIKH HA-MASPIK

Tel Aviv : No Publisher., 1960.

(FT) 8vo. 223 pages. In Hebrew. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew language, post-Biblical – dictionaries; Hebrew language – dictionaries – Judeo-Arabic; Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204 – dictionaries. OCLC lists 10 copies worldwide. Tanhum ben Joseph (c. 1220–1291) was a “philologist and biblical exegete. Few biographical details are known of him. As his name indicates, either he or his family originated from Jerusalem, and according to Bacher, he lived for some time in Erez Israel and subsequently went to Egypt, where he died. Tanhum had an extensive knowledge of philosophy, and knew a number of languages, including Arabic and Greek, and it would appear that he knew medicine. He had a profound knowledge of all the biblical exegetes and grammarians who had preceded him. He was the last representative of the rational school of biblical exegetes in the East, but the "central pillars" upon which he based his works were "the words of the revered Rabbi Moses b. Maimon in his scientific outlook and his religious beliefs, and the words of R. Jonah Ibn Janah in grammar and philology. " Al-Murshid al-Kafi [is] a lexicon giving in alphabetical order the nouns and verbs in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. This work is of considerable importance on account of the new Hebrew terms which he coined, and it constitutes the greatest codex of Maimonides' work . ” (EJ, 2007) Shalom Spiegel's copy with his bookplate. Boards slightly worn, good+ condition. (RAB-20-24)

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