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JOSEPH KIMHI was a native of southern Spain, and settled in Provence, where he was one of the first to set forth in the Hebrew language the results of Hebraic philology as expounded by the Spanish Jews in their Arabic treatises. He was acquainted moreover with Latin grammar, under the influence of which he resorted to the innovation of dividing the Hebrew vowels into five long vowels and five short, previous grammarians having simply spoken of seven vowels without distinction of quantity. His grammatical textbook, Sefer Ha-Zikkaron, "Book of Remembrance " (ed. W. Bacher, Berlin, 1888), was marked by methodical comprehensiveness, and introduced into the theory of the verbs a new classification of the stems which has been retained by later scholars. In the far more ample Sefer Ha-Galuy, "Book of Demonstration" (ed. Matthews
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Proverbs and job have been published. He composed an apologetic work under the title Sefer Ha-Berith ("Book of the Bond "), a fragment of which is extant, and translated into Hebrew the ethico-philosophical work of Bahya ibn Paquda (" Duties of the Heart "). In his commentaries he also made contributions to the comparative philology of Hebrew and Arabic.Mosxs Kling was the author of a Hebrew grammar, knownafter the first three wordsas Mahalak Shebile Ha-daat, or brieflyas Mahalak. It is an elementary introduction to the study of Hebrew, the first of its kind, in which only the most indispensable definitions and rules have a place, the remainder being almost wholly occupied by paradigms. Moses Kimhi was .the first who made the verb paqadh a model for conjugation, and the first also who introduced the now usual sequence in the enumeration of stem-forms. His handbook was of great
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Proverbs , Ezra and Nehemiah are in the great rabbinical bibles falsely ascribed to Abraham ibn Ezra.End of Article: JOSEPH KIMHI If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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