BENEDICT BEN MOSES OF LINCOLN
- BENEDICT BEN MOSES OF LINCOLN
- BENEDICT BEN MOSES OF LINCOLN (d. 1278), English financier,
in secular records called Magister Benedictus filius Magistri Mossei de
Lincolnia. Benedict came from a family of scholars: his
great-grandfather, Moses of Bristol (later of Oxford), had been a patron
of letters; his grandfather, Yom Tov (apparently also known as Simeon),
composed the lost Sefer ha-Tena'im; and his father, R.
moses b. yom tov of London, was the leading Hebrew and talmudic
scholar of his day in England. One of Benedict's brothers was Hagin
(Ḥayyim), archpresbyter of English Jewry from 1257 until his
death in 1280; another was R. elijah menahem b. moses of London.
Benedict's business activities in Lincoln date from 1252 and are often
referred to in the records of subsequent decades. It is conjectured that
the blood libel at Lincoln in 1255 took place when a number of
Jews from all over England were assembled to celebrate the marriage of
Benedict's daughter Bellasset. Benedict was among those arrested. After
his family had procured the intervention of the Castilian ambassador,
Benedict was released in December 1255 and his sequestered property
restored to him. In Hebrew Benedict was known as R. Berechiah of Nicole
(Lincoln). He was regarded as one of the outstanding Anglo-Jewish
halakhic scholars of his day and was mentioned with veneration long
after his death. R. Berechiah was also known as an exegete. His name
occurs along with those of other English rabbis of the 13th
century in the works of several tosafists.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. Jacobs, in: JHSET, 1 (1893–94), 101–2; C. Roth,
ibid., 15 (1946), 29ff.; idem, in: JJS, 3
(1952), 56–61; Rigg-Jenkinson, Exchequer, index; Urbach, Tosafot, 402;
J. Ḥazzan, Eẓ Ḥayyim, ed. by I. Brodie, 1 (1962), 141, 310; 2
(1964), 179; E.E. Urbach, in: Sefer ha-Yovel Tiferet Yisrael…
Brodie (1967), 1ff.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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