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Samuel de Valerio
Second Half of the 16th Century
Samuel de Valerio, a physician, lived in various places in the Greek archipelago. His commentary on the book of Esther, Yad ha-melekh (Hand of the King), was completed in Corfu in 1579, and one year later, he finished his commentary on the book of Daniel, ḥazon la-mo’ed (Vision for an Appointed Time), in Chalandrisa, a village not far from Patras. Both works were printed in Venice. According to his own testimony, Samuel also wrote commentaries on Lamentations and Ecclesiastes.
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Ḥazon le-mo‘ed (Vision for an Appointed Time): On Daniel
The king assigned them portions of food and wine, each day on its day, from the king’s food and wine. They were to raise [the boys] three years; afterwards some of them would stand before the king…