The substance of the old midrashim is quoted in smooth and ornate language, from which foreign words are excluded, the general method being that of Tobiah ben Eliezer's Leḳaḥ Ṭob, which is frequently quoted, both with and without acknowledgment.
2 (edited by Buber, Berlin, 1900) is in existence, in two separate manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.
Of Menahem's other work, the Eben Boḥan, only fragments are extant (Munich MS. No.
This work, completed at Rome in 1143, in five months, was intended to prepare the author's three young sons for the study of the Bible.
The author follows chiefly Menahem ben Saruq; occasionally, and with diffidence, however, he advances his own views, and the entire conception of the form and contents of the work shows a certain degree of independence.