Tam ben Jahja

Jacob ben David Tam ibn Jahja (* approx. 1475; † approx. 1542) was a Jewish scholar.

Tam succeeded Elijah Mizrahi (d. 1526) as a halachic authority responsible for the entire Ottoman Empire . In 1510 he published an edition of Josippon in Constantinople ; the foreword was attributed to him, but it comes from Judah Leon ben Moses Mosconi .

Works

Oholei Tam (answer letters to halachic questions). In: Tummat Yesharim , Venice 1642.

literature

Ephraim Kupfer: TAM IBN YAḤYA, JACOB BEN DAVID. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 19, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865947-3 , p. 495 (English).

Individual evidence

↑ Shulamit Sela: Art. Josephus (Medieval version) , in: Norman Roth (ed.): Medieval Jewish civilization . An encyclopedia, Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages 7, Routledge, New York 2002, pp. 377-380, here 380.
↑ Isidore Singer, Peter Wiernik: TAM, JACOB B. DAVID IBN YAḤYA. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.

personal data
SURNAME	Tam ben Jahja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tam ben Yahya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Jewish scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1475
DATE OF DEATH	around 1542

[1] Shulamit Sela: Art. Josephus (Medieval version) , in: Norman Roth (ed.): Medieval Jewish civilization . An encyclopedia, Routledge encyclopedias of the Middle Ages 7, Routledge, New York 2002, pp. 377-380, here 380.

[2] Isidore Singer, Peter Wiernik: TAM, JACOB B. DAVID IBN YAḤYA. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.