CARA. - French Jewish family (qārā = the reader), of which three rabbis are to be remembered:
MENĀHEM BEN HELBŌ (11th century), the earliest in time of the exegetes of the French school, who together with Rashi began the movement of reaction against moral-allegorizing interpretation. SIMEON BEN HELBŌ, called had-Darīān ("the homilist"), brother of the preceding. The attribution to him of the midrashic collection Jalqūš Sim'ōnī has been shown to be false by L. Zunz. A commentary on Proverbs is cited as his. His son JOSEPH BEN SIM'ON was an exegete; seeking the literal biblical sense with more ardor than Rashi, whose commentaries he takes as a basis while adding his own, he breaks away from tradition, anticipating modern methods. His commentaries, which embrace almost the entire Old Testament, exercised great influence.
BibliographyB. Einstein, R. Josef Kara und sein Kommentar zu Kohelet, Berlin 1886.
BIBL.: B. Einstein, R. Josef Kara und sein Kommentar zu Kohelet, Berlin 1886.
Ravenna, Alfredo. “Cara.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 734. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/cara.
MLA
Ravenna, Alfredo. “Cara.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 734. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cara.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_cara,
author = {Ravenna, Alfredo},
title = {Cara},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {734},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cara}
}
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