sentences:  Although the "Yosef ha-Meqanne" is nowhere expressly quoted, it may be assumed that it was used by the polemicists.The "Nitztzachon Yashan", published by Wagenseil, and the "Nitztzachon" of Lipmann of Mülhausen have some analogical passages.A great number of the answers of Joseph are reproduced almost verbatim in many Bible commentaries of French origin.