Eurydemus ben Jose (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְדִימוֹס בֵּן ר׳ יוֹסֵי בֵּן חֲלַפְתָּא, romanized: R. Avdimos ben R. Yosei ben Ḥalafta)[1][note 1] was one of the sons of Tanna Jose ben Ḥalafta. The few remarks ascribed to Eurydemus contain admonitions to benevolence.
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- ^ His name has also been transmitted as Avardimas (אֲװַרְדִימָס), Avirodimus (אבירודימוס), Vardimos (וַרְדִּימוֹס), and Vardimas (וַרְדִּימָס). As a basic form Bacher assumes "Eurydemus" (compare the Biblical רחבעם), a name which occurs in Herodotus. Jakob Levy[2] and Alexander Kohut,[3] on the other hand, favor the name "Eudaimon." Others, following the Palestinian sources, read all these names, "Avdimos," whom they identify with Menaḥem b. Jose (compare Abdimus ben R. Jose).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schechter, Solomon; Schloessinger, Max (1903). "Eurydemus ben Jose". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 274.
- ^ Ha-Eshkol: Allgemeine Encyklopädie (in Hebrew). Vol. 1. Warsaw: Druk J. Goldman. 1888. p. 47.
- ^ Levy, Jakob (1876). Neuhebräisches und chaldäisches Wörterbuch über die Talmude und Midraschim (in German). Vol. 1. Leipzig: Brockhaus. p. 504b–505a.
- ^ Kohut, Alexander. Aruch Completum. Vol. 3. p. 257b.