Moses Kimḥi

The first son of Joseph Kimḥi, Moses Kimḥi followed in his father’s footsteps as a grammarian and exegete, although he was to be overshadowed by his prolific brother David. Moses lived in Narbonne and continued his father’s efforts to bring Andalusi exegetical perspectives to French Jews. Moses’ most lasting works were commentaries on Proverbs, Job, and Ezra-Nehemiah, printed in standard rabbinic Bibles, though under the name Abraham Ibn Ezra. His grammatical work Course of the Paths of Knowledge (Mahalakh shevile ha-da‘at) proved immensely successful and was translated into Latin in the sixteenth century.