Joshua (Or Jeshua) Ben-Jehudah
(called in Arabic Abulfarag Forkan Ibn-Assad), quoted by Aben-Ezra as R. Joshua (ר יושועה ), a distinguished Jewish philosopher, grammarian, and commentator of the Karaite sect, flourished in the 11th century. From his great piety and extensive knowledge, he obtained the honorable appellation of the aged or presbyter (Ha-Saken, A-Sheikh). His expositions, which cover the whole of the Old Test., are still in MS. The only fragments printed are given by Aben-Ezra on Genesis 28:12; Genesis 49:27; Exodus 3:2; Exodus 3:13; Exodus 4:4; Exodus 6:3; Exodus 6:13; Exodus 7:3; Exodus 7:12; Exodus 8:22; Exodus 10:6; Exodus 12:5; Exodus 15:4; Exodus 17:16; Exodus 22:7; Exodus 35:5; Leviticus 16:1; Hosea 5:7; Joel 3:1; Amos 9:10; Obadiah 1:17; Jonah 3:3; Micah 2:7; Micah 7:12; Habakkuk 2:7; Zephaniah 3:1; Haggai 2:10; Malachi 2:6; Daniel 1:3; Daniel 2:4; Daniel 4:17; Daniel 7:9; Daniel 12:2; Psalms 88:1; Psalms 109:8; Psalms 110:3; Psalms 119:160; Psalms 122:1; Psalms 149:6. Compare Delitzsch, in Aaron ben-Elias, עִוֹ חיי (Leipzig, 1844), p. 315 sq.; Pinsker, Lickute Kadmoniot (Vienna, 1860), text, p. 117; Grä tz, Geschichte der Juden, 6, 94 sq.; Kitto, Bibl. Cyclop. s.v.