BEREKHIAH NAQDAN  , Jewish fabulist, author of a collection of

Fox Fables, written in Hebrew . As his title implies (Naqdan =punctuator of the Biblical text), Berekhiah was also a grammarian . He further wrote an ethical treatise and was the author of various translations . His date is disputed . Most authorities place him in the 13th century, but J . Jacobs has identified him with Benedictus le Puncteur, an English Jew of the 12th century .