Works
Ḳara was a prolific exegetical writer. When he copied Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch he added numerous glosses and remarks in order to supplement and revise it; and these glosses were inserted by the scribes in the text of Rashi. They have been collected.
The original or independent Bible commentaries of Ḳara are:
- According to Berliner (l.c. p. 16), a commentary on Deuteronomy i-iv. (printed l.c., pp. 6 et seq.).
- Commentaries on the Prophets published in Miḳra'ot Gedolot, Lublin, 1897 (see Samuel Poznanski in Zeit. für Hebr. Bibl. v.68); extracts from these commentaries were published by Wolf in Ha-Shaḥar, ii.289, iii.688, iv.55 (see also, L. Dukes in Orient, Lit. 1847, p. 344); by Littmann in Josef ben Simeon Kara, pp. 26–32 (from Isaiah and Ezekiel). Those on the Book of Samuel and most of the Minor Prophets are not genuine (Porges, in Monatsschrift, 1883, p. 170; Rosin, l.c. p. 72, note 2). The Jeremiah commentary was published separately by Schlossberg (Commentaire sur Jerémie, Paris, 1881; comp. Brüll's Jahrb. vii.170 et seq.; see, also, Zunz, Z.G. p. 68; Geiger, l.c. i.18); that on Hosea, Breslau, 1861.
- Commentaries on most of the Hagiographa namely:
- Proverbs; see the quotation in Ḳara's commentary on Eccl. vii.12.
- Book of Job, published in Monatsschrift, vols. v., vi, and vii (see also, S.D. Luzzatto in Kerem Ḥemed, vii. 61 et seq.; A. Geiger, l.c., pp. 11 et seq.).
- Canticles (i. 1-vii. 13), published by Hübsch (Ḥamesh Megillot, Prague, 1866; see Salfeld, Das Hohelied Salomo's, p. 49).
- Book of Ruth, published by Hübsch, l.c., and by A. Jellinek, l.c. (comp. A. Epstein in Ha-Ḥoḳer, i.31, note 2).
- Lamentations, published in Naples in 1486, and by Hübsch (l.c.), Jellinek (l.c.), and E. Ashkenazi (Dibre Ḥakamim, pp. 17 et seq., Metz, 1849), and by S. Buber in two different recensions in Kaufmann Gedenkbuch, pp. 8 et seq.
- Ecclesiastes, published by Hübsch (l.c.) and Einstein (in Berliner's Magazin, xiii. ).
- Book of Esther, published by Hübsch (l.c.), Jellinek (l.c.), and Berliner (ib. 1878; comp. ib. 1876, p. 158).
It is quite possible that Ḳara wrote also commentaries on Ezra and Nehemiah, but that the commentaries on these books as contained in MS. Saraval No. 27, and ascribed to Joseph Ḳara, are not genuine (A. Geiger, in Oẓar Neḥmad, iv.43 et seq.). Some comments of Ḳara on Chronicles must have existed, as is proved by the quotations in pseudo-Rashi to those books (see II Chron. iii.15, v.9, xxv.24). According to Epstein (l.c. i.29 et seq.), Ḳara wrote additionally
- glosses to the pseudo-Rashi commentary on Genesis Rabbah, and
- a commentary on the Maḥzor (comp. Zunz, Ritus, p. 198).
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