El Manuscripto Apologetico de Alfonso de Zamora: Traduccion y Estudio del Sefer Hokmat Elohim

Pérez Castro, Federico. El Manuscripto Apologetico de Alfonso de Zamora: Traduccion y Estudio del Sefer Hokmat Elohim. Madrid and Barcelona: Instituto Arias Montano, 1950. 8vo. CI, 478 pp. Brown wrappers with red lettering on front cover and spine, red decorative publisher’s emblem on rear cover. Some bumping and splitting of back strip, but interior and text is absolutely pristine. Introduction is 101 pp. A number of unopened pages. In Spanish, translated from the Hebrew. Footnotes throughout, some with original Hebrew text. Book is in good condition. g. Softcover.

“The Apologetic Manuscript of Alfonso de Zamora”. Alfonso de Zamora was Spanish Rabbi who converted to Roman Catholicism. He was baptized in 1506; died 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 Hebraicae”. (18028) $65