ROMI, DANIEL B. JEHIEL:
Scholar and poet of the tenth and eleventh centuries; probably a brother of R. Nathan, author of the "'Aruk." He wrote a commentary on the treatise Zera'im and a "yoẓer" in twenty-two verses for the Sabbath Ḥanukkah, in which he recounts the Antiochus story (MS. De Rossi No. 959). The forms he uses are those of the old payyeṭanim. See Ḥanukkah.
Bibliography:
- Zunz, Z. G. pp. 163, 649;
- Rapoport, Toledot de-R. Natan, beginning and note 2;
- Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 61, Berlin, 1857;
- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, pp. 264-265.
