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R. Yosef Bekhor Shor – Intellectual Profile
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Name | R. Yosef Bekhor Shor ר' יוסף בכור שור |
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Dates | 12th century |
Location | France |
Works | Torah and Tehillim commentaries, novellae on the Talmud, liturgical poems |
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Influenced by | Rashbam, R. Tam |
Impacted on | Sefer HaGan, Baalei HaTosafot, Ramban |
Background
Life He is known to have lived in the 12th-century Northern French Tosafist milieu, and to have been a disciple of Rabbenu Tam.5 He was a Halakhist/Talmudist whose novellae are included in Tosafot, as well as a Bible commentator. From his writings it can be deduced that he knew Latin and was familiar with Christian biblical exegesis.6 In his commentary, he confronts contemporary Christians and Jews who allegorize the commandments, defending traditional Jewish practice and belief.7 He also was a paytan (author of liturgical poems)8 who seems to have had a rather well-developed literary sense.9 His respected standing within the Tosafist world is attested by frequent use of his commentaries by later Tosafist compendia.10
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- Hebrew name – ר' יוסף בכור שור1
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- Dates – Middle to late 12th century2
- Location – Northern France3
- Education and Occupation – No more than a skeletal history of Bekhor Shor’s life can be constructed from the sources that currently exist.4
- Family – Bekhor Shor cites his father once in his commentary,11 and he had a son who is cited in Tosafist literature, called R. Avraham b. R. Yosef of Orleans.12
- Teachers – R. Yaakov Tam13
- Contemporaries – Rashbam, R. Eliezer of Beaugency,14 R. Avraham Ibn Ezra15
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