IBN SHU'AIB, JOEL:
Rabbi, preacher, and commentator of the fifteenth century; born in Aragon; lived also at Tudela. He wrote: "'Olat Shabbat," sermons, in the order of the Sabbatical sections, written in 1469 (Venice, 1577); a commentary on Lamentations, written at Tudela in 1480, and published together with Galante's commentary on the same book (ib. 1483); a commentary on Job, mentioned in his '"Olat Shabbat"; a short commentary on Canticles (1556); "Nora Tehillot," a commentary on the Psalms, with a preface by his son Samuel (Salonica, 1568-69).
Bibliography:
- Conforte, Ḳore ha-Dorot, p. 28a;
- De Rossi-Hamberger, Hist. Wörterb. p. 291;
- Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1400;
- Dukes, in Orient, Lit. ix. 302;
- Nepi-Ghirondi, Toledot Gedole Yisrael, p. 162.
