JOSEPH BEN ASHER OF CHARTRES
- JOSEPH BEN ASHER OF CHARTRES
- JOSEPH BEN ASHER OF CHARTRES (12th–13th
centuries), liturgical poet. Joseph was the brother-in-law of Joseph b.
Nathan of Etampes, and granduncle of Joseph b. Nathan Official. The
latter reports in his apologetic for Judaism
(Yosefha-Mekanne, no. 24) that Joseph engaged in a
disputation with a Christian clergyman. To the latter's question as to
why God had appeared to Moses in a bramblebush, rather than in a tree,
Joseph is said to have replied that it was because a cross could not be
made from a bramblebush. According to gedaliah ibn yahia , Joseph
was a pupil of jacob b. meir tam and samuel b. meir . His
notes on the Bible are cited in a few commentaries in manuscript
(Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Bodl. Or. 604; Ms. Marsh. 225; Ms. Opp.
724). He is also known as the author of an elegy on the massacre at
York, 1190.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Zunz, Lit Poesie, 470, 480; Z. Kahn, in: REJ, 1 (1880),
238, 240, 246; Gross, Gal Jud, 603–5; C. Roth, in: Mezudah, 2
(1944), 116–21; A.M. Habermann, Gezerot Ashkenaz ve-Ẓarefat
(1945), 152–4, 260f.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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