Now edited for the first time from manuscripts at Parma and Munich, with an English translation, introduction and notes. This study of the life and works of Berachya may serve to demonstrate how steadily the study of Jewish literature has proceeded in modern times. We may take Berachya as a typical example of a fact well recognized in literary history, that gradually out of the past new names emerge, and that often only after the lapse of centuries the world accords authors and their works the appreciation and honor due them.