Bechor-schor, Joseph

Bechor-Schor, Joseph, a French rabbi who flourished about 1160, is the author of a commentary on the Pentateuch, פֵרוּשׁ על הִתּוֹרָה (Constantinople, 1520). In 1856 A. Jellinek published Genesis and Exodus according to a Munich MS. (Leipsic). See First, Bibl. Jud. i, 95; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. i, 85; Levy, Die Exegese bei den franzosischen Juden von 10. bis 14. Jaihrhundert (Leipsic, 1873), p. 21 sq.; Zunz, Zur Geschichte und Literatur, p. 74 sq. (B. P.)