Joshua (Or Jeshua) Ben-Jehudah
Joshua (Or Jeshua) Ben-Jehudah
(called in Arabic Abulfarag Forkan Ibn-Assad), quoted by Aben-Ezra as R. Joshua ( ), a distinguished Jewish philosopher, grammarian, and commentator of the Karaite sect, flourished in the 11th century. From his great piety and extensive knowledge, he obtained the honorable appellation of the aged or presbyter (Ha-Saken, A-Sheikh). His expositions, which cover the whole of the Old Test., are still in MS. The only fragments printed are given by Aben-Ezra on Gen 28:12; Gen 49:27; Exo 3:2; Exo 3:13; Exo 4:4; Exo 6:3; Exo 6:13; Exo 7:3; Exo 7:12; Exo 8:22; Exo 10:6; Exo 12:5; Exo 15:4; Exo 17:16; Exo 22:7; Exo 35:5; Lev 16:1; Hos 5:7; Joe 3:1; Amo 9:10; Oba 1:17; Jon 3:3; Mic 2:7; Mic 7:12; Hab 2:7; Zep 3:1; Hag 2:10; Mal 2:6; Dan 1:3; Dan 2:4; Dan 4:17; Dan 7:9; Dan 12:2; Psa 88:1; Psa 109:8; Psa 110:3; Psa 119:160; Psa 122:1; Psa 149:6. Compare Delitzsch, in Aaron ben-Elias, (Leipzig, 1844), p. 315 sq.; Pinsker, Lickute Kadmoniot (Vienna, 1860), text, p. 117; Grtz, Geschichte der Juden, 6, 94 sq.; Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop. s.v.