Meir Obernik (; 1764 – 6 November 1805) was a writer and Biblical commentator of the Biurist movement. Obernik contributed to the '' Me'assef'' a great number of fables, and was one of the most active of the Biurists. He translated into German the Books of Joshua and

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, adding a short commentary (''bi'ur''), and (with ) the

Book of Samuel The Book of Samuel (, ''Sefer Shmuel'') is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament. The book is part of the narrative history of Ancient Israel called the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books (Joshu ...

. The translation of the whole Tanakh, with the ''bi'ur'', was edited by Obernik under the title of ''Minḥah ḥadashah'' (Vienna, 1792–1806).

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