Moses Kimchi

Moses Kimchi (* in Narbonne ; † 1190 ibid), also known by the acronym Remak , was a Jewish grammarian and exegete of the 12th century.

He was the son of Rabbi Joseph Kimchi and the brother of David Kimchi . In both his grammatical and exegetical works, Moses Kimchi was influenced by his father and Abraham ibn Esra . In his work on Hebrew grammar , he dealt mainly with the morphology of the verb. In his book Mahalach schwile ha-da'at ("Access to the Paths of Knowledge"), which was printed in Pesaro in 1508 , Moses introduced the paradigmatic use of the root pkd ( פ ק ד ). His classification of the seven conjugation forms kal, nif'al, pi'el, pu'al, hif'il, hofal and hitpa'el was adopted by later grammarians. His grammar was annotated by Elijah Levita and appeared in the Latin translation of Sebastian Munster under the title Liber viarum linguae sacrae in Paris in 1520. In the translation by Sebastian Münster, this work became one of the most widely used Hebrew grammars for the Christian Hebraists of the 16th century and has been reprinted several times.

As an exegete, Moses Kimchi mainly commented on those books of the Bible that had generally been neglected and wrote explanations for the Book of Proverbs , Book of Ezra , Nehemiah, and the Book of Job .

literature

• Encyclopedia Judaica . Vol. 10, pp. 1007-1008.
• Paul-Richard Berger:  Moses Kimchi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 1484-1486.