Elijah Ben Joseph

Turkish Talmudist and commentator; lived at Salonica in the sixteenth century. He wrote: "Ḳol Teru'ah," homilies on the Pentateuch, Salonica, 1562; and an unpublished commentary on Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Daniel, Ezra, and Chronicles, entitled "Sefer ha-Tiḳḳunim."

Bibliography:

  * Michael, Or ha-Ḥayyim, No. 383;
  * Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 930.



K. M. Sel.