Tzaphnath Paane’ach [commentary to the Books of Ecclesiastes and Job]

LUSITANO, SAMUEL HACOHEN OF PISA

Giovanni Martinelli for Vendramin

Venice

1656

First Edition. Title within typographical border, woodcut device on title (Ya’ari, Printers’ Marks no. 59). Marginalium on f.24r., possibly the author's own corrigendum

Vinograd, Venice 1324

In his commentary to the Book of Job, the author advances the novel theory that Job was in fact Job son of Issachar son of Jacob. The author accepts the Talmudic notion that Moses authored the Book of Job; thus Job himself would have been a contemporary of Moses in Egypt - although obviously older in age