Jabez, Isaac ben-Salomo ben-Isaac ben-Joseph
Jabez, Isaac ben-Salomo ben-Isaac ben-Joseph
a Jewish commentator of some note, flourished in the 15th century. Of his personal history we are uninformed, but his works, of great celebrity in the 15th century, still continue to be considered valuable contributions to exegetical literature; and Frankfurter, in his Rabbinic Bible, inserted the following, which are, however, rather compilations from different expositors than the original productions of Jabez:
(1) , or Commentary on the Psalms:
(2) , or Commentary on Proverbs:
(3) , or Commentary on Proverbs:
(4) , or Commentary on the Song of Songs:
(5) , or Commentary on Ruth:
(6) , or Commentary on Lamentations:
(7) , or Commentary on the Book of Ecclesiastes:
(8) , or Commentary on the Book of Esther:
(9) , or Commentary on Daniel:
(10) , or Commentary on Ezra and Nehemiah. Besides these, Jabez wrote , or homiletical Commentary on the Haphtaroth, or Sabbatic Lessons from the prophets (Belvidere, near Constantinople, 1593, folio): , or Commentary on the Pentateuch. See W. Biblioth. Hebraea, 1, 694; 3:617 sq.; 4:886; Furst, Biblioth. Jued. 2, 2; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. in Biblioth. Bodl. col. 1125; C. D. Ginsburg, in Kitto, s.v.