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This blog post brings information about him. In the post it says: "...he was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland. He attended religious elementary school and yeshivas, acquired the reputation of a pr …

It seems that these hagahot were written mostly by a number of Tosafists, though I don't know who added them to the Shas/connected them to the Tosfot in R"H1. From what I can tell, they don't appear i …

To clarify a little, Rabbi Eliezer thinks it was in the time of the Judges, not necessarily in the time of Ruth. It's true that he uses a phrase from Ruth ("בימי שפוט השופטים"), but he doesn't state t …

Who authored the Targum on Kohelet? I was unable to find an answer online.

The identity of the author remains a mystery, but Pinchas Churgin analyzed the targum in his book תרגום כתובים and wrote that this much could be concluded about the author: The targum was composed in …

This thread on the Otzar Hachochma forum discusses the issue. Ta-Shema's essay is also brought there and discussed a little. The OP thought he had some evidence that it was R"Y Abuhav who copied from …

Its author is unknown. According to Rabbi Reuven Ochanah in one of his letters to Rabbi Moshe Buton on the subject of the song (here, pg. 5), he heard from Rabbi Moshe Tzedakah that the song was compo …

Here are R' Shmuel Ashkenazi's two Alfa Beta books: אלפא ביתא קדמיתא דשמואל זעירא (Alfa Beta Kadmita de-Shmuel Zeira) אלפא ביתא תניתא דשמואל זעירא (Alfa Beta Tanita de-Shmuel Zeira) For more informati …

The article brings a few opinions attempting to narrow down the authorship a little more: Rabbi Bernard Revel thought it was created by Eretz Yisrael sages of the 8th or 9th century, as a reaction to …

Abarbanel discusses this issue in his introduction to Sefer Yehoshua and concludes (my translation): "And it seems that when Yirmiyahu wished to write Sefer Melachim, he clarified Sefer Shmuel that c …

Rabbi Yehudah Hachassid in Sefer Chassidim, siman 1016 seems to say this: "...ומ"ש הלא הם כתובים על דברי חוזה במדרש עידו אנשי כנסת הגדולה אמרו מה שהוצרכו לדרוש כבר ואין נביא רשאי לחדש דבר על עשרים וא …

Rabbi Halevi doesn't write that some Bible scholars thought that Shmuel wrote the Tanach, but that they claim that the Book of Shmuel along with most of the Tanach was made up during the time of Yirmi …

According to the book תוספות הר"ש משאנץ כתובות - Tosfot of the RaSh of Sens Ketubot, which is a printing of the Cambridge 508.1 MS1 by Avraham Lis, the author of this tosfot is the RaSh of Sens. 1 I …

By the way, Yisrael Weinshtok wrote an extensive essay on the subject of the authorship of the Bahir in his book במעגלי הנגלה והנסתר (which is how I found the above letter by Rabbi Meir ben Shimon; can …

Ezra and Nechemiah: Viezel, in a lengthy essay on the commentary on Ezra and Nechemiah, notes that the first person to doubt Rashi's authorship of the commentary was the Reform maskil Avraham Geiger, so …