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Alfonso de Zamora

Converted Spanish Rabbi, baptized 1506; d. 1531

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Alfonso de Zamora, a converted Spanish Rabbi, baptized 1506; d. 1531. He revised the Hebrew text for Ximenes’s Polyglot Bible, translated the Chaldee paraphrase in it, and added the sixth volume. He published also a work called “Introductiones Hebraic” (Alcala, 1526).

A. J. MAAS


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