Moses ben Hanoch
Moses ben Hanoch or Moses ben Enoch (in Hebrew: משה בן חנוך, Moshe ben Hanoch) was a medieval rabbi who inadvertently became the preeminent Talmudic scholar of Spain. He died about 965.
Moses was one of the four scholars who went from
drowned
.
Moses was taken to
Caliph Abd al-Rahman III to order Ibn Rumahis to forgo the higher ransom which he, in consequence, was demanding for Moses. Moses organized an important school at Cordova, which was independent of the gaonate
and was attended by many pupils; and through him Cordova became the seat of Jewish scholarship.
Bibliography
- Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah, ed. Amsterdam, p. 41a;
- Jost, Gesch. des Judenthums und Seiner Sekten, ii. 399 et seq.;
- Frankel's Zeitschrift für die Religiösen Interessen des Judenthums, ii. 100 et seq., iii. 397 et seq., 422 et seq.;
- Grätz, Gesch. v. 336, 347 et seq., 542 et seq.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Moses ben Enoch". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
