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BEREKHIAH NAQDAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEREKHIAH NAQDAN , Jewish fabulist, author of a collection of See also:

Fox Fables, written in See also:Hebrew. As his See also:title implies (Naqdan =punctuator of the Biblical See also:text), Berekhiah was also a grammarian. He further wrote an ethical See also:treatise and was the author of various See also:translations. His date is disputed. Most authorities See also:place him in the 13th See also:century, but J. See also:Jacobs has identified him with See also:Benedictus le Puncteur, an See also:English See also:Jew of the 12th century.

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