 He thus became the forerunner of Maimonides and the Catholic Schoolmen.Solomon ben Isaac, called Rashi (born 1040) wrote very popular explanations of the Talmud and the Bible.Tobiah ben Eliezer a Romaniote scholar and paytan in 11th century Kastoria (Greece), wrote the "Leḳaḥ Ṭov" or "Pesiḳta Zuṭarta", a midrashic commentary on the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot.