Yosei Alnaharvanai Explained

Yosei Alnaharvanai was a Hebrew scholar of the Gaonic period, probably of Nehardea.

He is the author of a rhymed alphabetical treatise in Hebrew on the Hebrew calendar, printed in Kerem Ḥemed.^[1] This poem is interesting for the light it throws on the history of the Jewish calendar as well as on the history of medieval Hebrew poetry. A commentary on Alnaharvanai's verses was later written by Saadia ben Yehuda ben Evyatar in Egypt.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Book: Sefer Kerem Ḥemed. https://books.google.com/books?id=4NxBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA41. 1856. 5. Berlin. ארבעה שערים דמ׳ יוסי אלנהרואנאי.
2. Book: Steinschneider, Moritz. Moritz Steinschneider. Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century: With an Introduction on Talmud and Midrash. 1857. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 182. William. Spottiswoode.