Alfonso de Zamora

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Alfonso de Zamora (also: Alfonso de Arcos; * 1476 in the province of Zamora ; † 1544 ) was a Spanish Jewish scholar, rabbi and theologian who converted to Christianity .

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He was born in the Province of Zamora, Provincia de Zamora , where he received an excellent education in exegesis , Hebrew grammar , prosody and calligraphy . When he was eighteen he was forced to give up the Jewish religion . This happened on the basis of the Alhambra Edict , Decreto de la Alhambra or also known as Edicto de Granada (Hebrew גירוש ספרד Gerush Sfarad), according to which on March 31, 1492 the decree expelled the Jews from all territories of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragón until July 31st of the year, provided they had not converted to Christianity by then ( Converso ).

At first he stayed abroad for a short time with his father, Rabbi Juan de Zamora. After the family returned in 1506 and was baptized , the father worked as a shoemaker .

Because of his Jewish origins, he probably sent his son Alfonso to the prestigious Hebrew school in Zamora . Alfonso later also learned Latin , Greek and Aramaic . After he finished his studies, he taught Hebrew at the University of Salamanca . His language skills would later benefit Bible scholars throughout Europe.

Because in 1512 Alfonso de Zamora received the chair of Hebrew studies at the newly founded university, the University of Alcalá , in Alcalá de Henares . Since Zamora was one of the leading scholars of his time, Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros , the founder of the university , wanted him to work on the Complutensic Polyglot , Biblia políglota complutense . As a six-volume monumental work was the type area a column set used, which presented the different languages in columns side by side; a Bible in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and partly in Aramaic.

Works

  • Introductiones Artis grammatice Hebraice nunc recenter edite. In Academia Complutensi. In aedibus Michaelis de Eguia, May 1, 1526.
Introductionis artis Grammaticae hebraica (1526).

literature

  • Luis Diez Merino: Terminonolgía gramatical hebrea de Alfonso de Zamora. Miscelanea de Estudios Árabes y Hebraicos, ISSN  0544-408X , 1988–1989, 37–38 (2), pp. 183–221 [2]
  • Jesús de Prado Plumed: La enseñanza del hebreo en Alcalá: la búsqueda complutense de Dios / Teaching Hebrew in Alcalá: the Complutense search for God. Centenario de la Biblia Políglota Complutense La Universidad del Renacimiento. Fifth Centennial El Renacimiento de la Universidad, pp. 452–488 [3]
  • Federico Perez Castro: Manuscrito apologetico de Alfonso de Zamora. Consejo superior de investigaciones cientificas, 1950, ISBN 978-84-00-01605-0 , S.XI-LX

Web links

  • Alfonso de Zamora Introductiones. Artis grammatice Hebraice nunc recenter edite. In Academia Complutensi. In aedibus Michaelis de Eguia. 1st of May. 1526. 8.º Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid, R-201 [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Neubauer: Alfonso de Zamora. The Jewish Quarterly Review Vol. 7, No. 3 (Apr., 1895), pp. 398-417 University of Pennsylvania Press doi : 10.2307 / 1449924 [1]
  2. ↑ Alfonso de Zamora. Biografías y Vidas, 2004-2017
  3. ↑ Elvira Pérez Ferreiro: Glosas rabínicas y sagrada escritura: tratado de Pedro de Palencia, OP, sobre la utilidad de las glosas rabínicas: transcripción y estudio. Vol. 47 Biblioteca de teólogos españoles, Editorial San Esteban, Salamanca 2004, ISBN 8-4826-0148-2 , p. 54 f.
  4. ↑ "Complutense" is the adjective to designate the Roman settlement "Complutum" from which the city of Alcalá de Henares emerged .
  5. ↑ Heinz Schilling : 1517: Weltgeschichte einer Jahr. CH Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-4067-0069-1 , pp. 232-236
personal data
SURNAME Zamora, Alfonso de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alphonsus, Zamorensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hispanic-Jewish theologian, university professor, Bible translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1476
PLACE OF BIRTH Zamora
DATE OF DEATH 1544