Benjamin ben Isaac of Carcassonne () was a 14th-century

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

scholar. He is known for his translation from

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

into

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

of Jean de Bourgogne of Liége's work on the corruption of the air by the

plague Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine *Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis'' * An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) * A pandemic caused by such a disease * A swarm of pes ...

, under the title of ''Ezer elohi, ma'amar be 'ipush ha-avir ve-ha-dever'' ('Divine Help: A Treatise on the Corruption of the Air and the Plague', or 1399).

References

14th-century French Jews 14th-century French writers 14th-century translators Latin–Hebrew translators {{Jewish-hist-stub