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R. Yosef Kara, a student/colleague of Rashi, was one of the intellectual giants of Biblical exegesis in Northern France in the 11th-12th centuries,<fn>For more on his life and work, see <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary</a> and the literature cited in the notes there.</fn> and his scholarly efforts spanned also the fields of liturgy and Midrash. He authored commentaries on most of the books of Tanakh, and perhaps on all of them. In recent years, portions of several of his commentaries have been rediscovered and recovered,<fn>For more, see <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary</a> and <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim</a>.</fn> and this has led to a greater appreciation of the centrality of the role he played in the development of the plain sense (<i>peshat</i>) Biblical exegesis in Northern France. | R. Yosef Kara, a student/colleague of Rashi, was one of the intellectual giants of Biblical exegesis in Northern France in the 11th-12th centuries,<fn>For more on his life and work, see <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary</a> and the literature cited in the notes there.</fn> and his scholarly efforts spanned also the fields of liturgy and Midrash. He authored commentaries on most of the books of Tanakh, and perhaps on all of them. In recent years, portions of several of his commentaries have been rediscovered and recovered,<fn>For more, see <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Torah Commentary</a> and <a href="Commentators:R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim" data-aht="page">R. Yosef Kara's Commentary on Neviim Rishonim</a>.</fn> and this has led to a greater appreciation of the centrality of the role he played in the development of the plain sense (<i>peshat</i>) Biblical exegesis in Northern France. | ||
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| − | <p>On a few books of Tanakh, multiple commentaries of R. Yosef Kara have survived.  Megillat Esther is one of these books, and we possess textual witnesses for three different commentaries of R. Yosef Kara on Esther. | + | <p>On a few books of Tanakh, multiple commentaries of R. Yosef Kara have survived.  Megillat Esther is one of these books, and we possess textual witnesses for three different commentaries of R. Yosef Kara on Esther.</p> |
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| + | <li>The commentary of R. Yosef Kara which survived in whole or in part in the most manuscripts is labeled "<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/R._Yosef_Kara_First_Commentary/Esther/1.1#m7e0nf">1st Commentary</a>" in ALHATORAH.ORG's Mikraot Gedolot. A full text of this commentary is found in MS Prague F6, and the beginning of the commentary (Esther 1:1-9 only) is found in MS Erlangen 1263. Virtually all of the numerous citations of R. Yosef found in MS Hamburg 32 match this commentary nearly verbatim, thus providing strong support for the identification of R. Yosef Kara as its author.<fn>The single citations of R. Yosef Kara in each of MS Paris 334 and MS Parma 2868 appear to be paraphrases and it is difficult to ascertain from which of the three commentaries they are drawn.</fn></li> | ||
| + | <li>An additional commentary of R. Yosef Kara is found in MS St. Petersburg Evr. I.21, and it is labeled "<a href="https://mg.alhatorah.org/Dual/R._Yosef_Kara_Second_Commentary/Esther/1.1#m7e0nf">2nd Commentary</a>" in ALHATORAH.ORG's Mikraot Gedolot. The identification of R. Yosef Kara as its author rests upon the extensive content parallels to the first commentary and stylistic similarities to other commentaries of R. Yosef Kara.</li> | ||
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Version as of 04:02, 21 February 2019
R. Yosef Kara's Commentaries on Esther
Introduction
Introduction
R. Yosef Kara, a student/colleague of Rashi, was one of the intellectual giants of Biblical exegesis in Northern France in the 11th-12th centuries,1 and his scholarly efforts spanned also the fields of liturgy and Midrash. He authored commentaries on most of the books of Tanakh, and perhaps on all of them. In recent years, portions of several of his commentaries have been rediscovered and recovered,2 and this has led to a greater appreciation of the centrality of the role he played in the development of the plain sense (peshat) Biblical exegesis in Northern France.
Multiple Commentaries on Esther
On a few books of Tanakh, multiple commentaries of R. Yosef Kara have survived. Megillat Esther is one of these books, and we possess textual witnesses for three different commentaries of R. Yosef Kara on Esther.
- The commentary of R. Yosef Kara which survived in whole or in part in the most manuscripts is labeled "1st Commentary" in ALHATORAH.ORG's Mikraot Gedolot. A full text of this commentary is found in MS Prague F6, and the beginning of the commentary (Esther 1:1-9 only) is found in MS Erlangen 1263. Virtually all of the numerous citations of R. Yosef found in MS Hamburg 32 match this commentary nearly verbatim, thus providing strong support for the identification of R. Yosef Kara as its author.3
- An additional commentary of R. Yosef Kara is found in MS St. Petersburg Evr. I.21, and it is labeled "2nd Commentary" in ALHATORAH.ORG's Mikraot Gedolot. The identification of R. Yosef Kara as its author rests upon the extensive content parallels to the first commentary and stylistic similarities to other commentaries of R. Yosef Kara.
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