Jacob Ben Reuben

Jacob ben Reuben may refer to:

  • Jacob ben Reuben (Karaite); eleventh-century Karaite scholar, probably from Constantinople
  • Jacob ben Reuben (rabbi); author of a polemical work against Christianity
  • Jacob ben Reuben ibn Zur; Moroccan rabbi of the eighteenth century CE.

Famous quotes containing the words jacob and/or ben:

    “As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And showed the names whom love of God had blessed,
    And, lo! Ben Adhem’s name led all the rest!”
    —Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)