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Moses B. Asher
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
or Masorite; father of Aaron; generally called Ben Asher; lived at Tiberias in the second half of the ninth century. His father, Asher, was a great-grandson of Asher the Great (or the Elder), one of the earliest Masorites of Tiberias known by name (comp. the genealogy in Baer and Strack, "Diḳduḳe ha-Te`amim," p. 79). Pinsker ("Liḳḳuṭe Ḳadmoniyyot," 1:32) and Grätz (in "Monatsschrift," 1871, pp. 1-12, 44-59) have assumed that Moses b. Asher and his son were Karaites; but it is much more probable that they both adhered to rabbinic Judaism (see Geiger's "Jüd. Zeit." 10:79-90; Baer and Strack, c. p. ). In the Karaite synagogue at Cairo there is a codex of the prophetical books which was completed, according to the colophon, by Moses b. Asher at Tiberias in 895 (827 years after the destruction of Jerusalem; comp. Jacob Saphir, "Eben Sappir," 1:14, 2:186 et seq.), and which contains two paragraphs of Masoretic passages united and ascribed to Aaron b. Moses b. Asher (§§ 3 and 70 in Baer and Strack's "Diḳduḳe ha-Te'amim," p. ).
- Strack, Prolegomena Critica, p. 46.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Moses B. Asher'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tje/m/moses-b-asher.html. 1901.
