was its author. Moses ha-Darshan explained some obscure expressions in certain piyyuṭim. He is credited also with a midrash on the Ten Commandments and with a "viddui". His pupils Moses' son was Judah ha-Darshan ben Moses. Probably the Joseph he-Ḥasid mentioned in Samuel ben Jacob ibn Jama's additions to the Arukh of Nathan ben Jehiel was a son of Judah ha-Darshan. Nathan ben Jehiel was certainly a student of Moses, whose explanations of Talmudical words and passages he cites. Abraham Zacuto ascribes to Moses three more pupils: Moses Anaw, Moses ben Joseph ben Merwan ha-Levi, and Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne (author of the Sefer ha-Eshkol). A. Epstein credits Moses with another pupil, a certain R. Shemaiah, who is quoted sometimes in Bereshit Rabbah Rabbati and in Numbers Rabbah as explaining sayings of Moses ha-Darshan's. He also suggests the identity of this Shemaiah with Shemaiah of Soissons, author of a midrash on Parashat Terumah, whose cosmological conceptions seem to have been influenced by Moses ha-Darshan. See also Hachmei Provence Notes Its bibliography: A. Epstein, Moses ha-Darshan aus Narbonne, Vienna, 1891; Henri Gross, Gallia Judaica, pp. 214, 410; M. L. Eisenstadt, in Ha-Meliẓ, xxxi. 196; W. Bacher, in Winter and Wünsche, Die Jüdische Litteratur, ii. 270, 335; A. Geiger, Parschandatha, p. 11, Leipsic, 1855. 11th-century French rabbis 11th-century French writers Provençal Jews Clergy from Narbonne French Orthodox rabbis Bible commentators Rosh yeshivas Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown