Pinto, Josias, ben-Joseph
Pinto, Josias, ben-Joseph
a Jewish rabbi, was born at the beginning of the 17th century at Lisbon, and settled at Damascus. He is also called 8, i.e. Rabbi Josias Pinto, and wrote , Light of the Eyes, annotations on the Fountain of Jacob, , by R. Jakob ibn-Chabib (Venice, 1643, and often since): , Purified Silver, a diffuse exposition on the Pentateuch (ibid. 1628): , Choice Silver. a succinct exposition on Genesis and Exodus: , Proved Silver, a commentary on Proverbs (Amsterd. 1714-35): 8, legal decisions (Venice, 1694; Smyrna, 1756). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3. 104; De Rossi, Dizionario storico degli autori Ebrei (Germ. transl. by Hamburger), p. 265; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. 1, 399 sq.; 3, 281 sq.; Lindo, Hist. of the Jews in Spain and Portugal, p. 336; Etheridge, Introduction to Hebrew Lit. p. 437; Finn, Sephardim, p. 462; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Bibl: Bodl. p. 1547. (B. P.)