Jekuthiel Ben-Jehudah Cohen
Jekuthiel Ben-Jehudah Cohen [1]
(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 עינים מאיר [R Ö delheim, 1818-21]) and the book of Esther (also published by Heidenheim in his סדר ימי הפורים [R Ö delheim, 1825]), with the vowels and accents, for the preparation of which he consulted six old Spanish codices, which he denominates תא , אק , אח , אמס ,אז , אט , and which Heidenheim explains to mean any אחד , תיקון , קדמון , השוב , מסוריות , תקן , טוב , the prefix א denoting Spain (comp. עין הקורא on Numbers 34:28). The results of his critical labors he further embodied in a work entitled עין קירא ( 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 כללי הנקוד דרכי הנקוד ( The Laws Of The Vowel Points ) . Comp. Zunz, Zur Geschichte Und Literatur (Berl. 1845), p. 115; F Ü rst, Bibliotheca Judaica, 2, 53; Geiger, Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift f. J Ü dische Theologie, 5, 418- 420; Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Heb. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 1381.
