{"id":174,"date":"2009-07-21T19:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/07\/rashis-importance-for-christians.html"},"modified":"2009-07-21T19:50:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:50:27","slug":"rashis-importance-for-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/07\/rashis-importance-for-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"Rashi&#8217;s Importance for Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Elie Wiesel&#8217;s new biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rashi-Jewish-Encounters-Elie-Wiesel\/dp\/0805242546\">Rashi<\/a>, on the great medieval French commentator on the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, and the Talmud, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/kingdomofpriests\/2009\/07\/it-is-rashi-speaking.html\">I mentioned<\/a>&nbsp;that he&#8217;s important not just for Jews but for Christians. His name is an acronym for Rabbi Shlomo son of Yitzhak. Writes Wiesel about Nicholas of Lyra (13th century):<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p>He cited Rashi so frequently that a certain Jean Mercier, at the College Royal of Paris, nicknamed him Simius Solomonis, Solomon&#8217;s (Shlomo&#8217;s) monkey.<\/p>\n<p>Through Nicholas of Lyra, Rashi had a powerful influence on Martin Luther whose German translation of the Bible owes much to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The King James Bible, interestingly, owes more in particular to Radak, Rabbi David Kimchi, another French sage who lived a little later (1160-1235).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Elie Wiesel&#8217;s new biography Rashi, on the great medieval French commentator on the Torah, the Hebrew Bible, and the Talmud, I mentioned&nbsp;that he&#8217;s important not just for Jews but for Christians. 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