BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. THE WORKS OF RASHI
A critical revision of Rashi's works remains to be made. They were used to such an extent, and, up to the time when printing gave definiteness to existing diversities, so many copies were made, that some of the works were preserved in bad shape, others were lost, and others again received successive additions.
1. BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES. - They cover nearly all the twenty - four books of the Bible.
<I>Job</I>. - "On Job the manuscripts are divided into series, according to whether or not they break off at xl. 28 of the text. The one Series gives Rashi's commentary to the end; the other, on the ground that Rashi's death prevented him from finishing his work, completes the commentary with that of another rabbi, R. Jacob Nazir" (Arsene Darmesteter). Geiger attributes this Supplementary commentary, which exists in several versions, to Samuel ben Meir; others attribute it to Joseph Kara. Some regard it as a compilation; others, again, assert that the entire commentary was not written by Rashi.
<I>Ezra</I> and <I>Nehemiah</I>.- Some authors deny that Rashi composed commentaries on <I>Ezra</I> and <I>Nehemiah</I>.
<I>Chronicles</I>. - It is certain that the commentary on <I>Chronicles</I>, which does not occur in the good manuscripts, and which was published for the first time at Naples in 1487, is not to be ascribed to Rashi. This was observed by so early a writer as Azulal, and it has been clearly demonstrated by Weiss (<I>Kerem Hemed</I>, v., 232 <I>et seq</I>.). It seems that Rashi did not comment upon <I>Chronicles</I> at all (In spite of Zunz and Weiss). Concerning the author of the printed commentary there is doubt. According to Zunz <I>(Zur Geschichte und Literatur</I>, p.73), it must have been composed at Narbonne about 1130-1140 by the disciples of Saadla (?).
2. TALMUDIC COMMENTARIES. - Rashi did not comment on the treatises lacking a Gemara, namely, <I>Eduyot, Middot</I> (the commentary upon which was written by Shemaiah), and <I>Tamid</I> (in the commentary on which Rashi is cited). It is calculated that, in all, Rashi commented on thirty treatises (compare Azulai, <I>Shem ha-Gedolim</I>, s. v., Weiss, and below, section B, 2).
<I>Pesahim</I>. - The commentary on Pesahim from 99b on is the work of Rashbam.
<I>Taanit</I>. - So early a writer as Emden denied to Rashi the authorship of the commentary on <I>Taanit</I>; and his conclusions are borne out by the style. There was a commentary on <I>Taanit</I> cited by the Tossafot, which forms the basis of the present commentary; and this may have belonged to the school of Rashi.