Jekuthiel Ben-Jehudah Cohen
Jekuthiel Ben-Jehudah Cohen
(also called SALMAN NAKDON, i.e. the Punctuator, and by contraction IEHABI), a distinguished Masorite and editor of the Hebrew Scriptures, flourished in Prague in the latter half of the 13th century. He edited a very correct text of the Pentateuch (published for the first time by Heidenheim in his edition of the Pentateuch called [Rdelheim, 1818-21]) and the book of Esther (also published by Heidenheim in his [Rdelheim, 1825]), with the vowels and accents, for the preparation of which he consulted six old Spanish codices, which he denominates , , , ,, , and which Heidenheim explains to mean any , , , , , , , the prefix denoting Spain (comp. on Num 34:28). The results of his critical labors he further embodied in a work entitled (The Eye of the Reader), and makes frequent quotations from the writings of many distinguished Jewish commentators of his and the preceding age. An appendix to the work contains a grammatical treatise entitled (The Laws of the Vowel Points). Comp. Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur (Berl. 1845), p. 115; Frst, Bibliotheca Judaica, 2, 53; Geiger, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift f. Jdische Theologie, 5, 418- 420; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Heb. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 1381.