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of Salamanca (1536–1597)'' Diego López de Zúñiga, Latin: Jacobus Lopis Stunica (died 1531 in

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) was a Spanish humanist and biblical scholar noted for his controversies with

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and

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and leadership of the team of editors for the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. He was born around 1470 in Extremadura, to an aristocratic family; his brother Juan de Zúñiga was a diplomat for

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. He was a pupil of

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at the University of Salamanca. In 1502 Cardinal

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recruited him for the team that would produce the ''Complutensian Polyglot''. López de Zúñiga controverted Erasmus on a number of points of Biblical translation. A contemporary view is that, while at times he defended the '' Latin Vulgate'' excessively, he made valid points in some other cases and showed up deficiencies of Erasmus who lacked the same command of Hebrew and Aramaic.Hall, pp. 76–7.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lopez de Zuniga, Diego 1531 deaths Spanish Renaissance humanists Year of birth unknown University of Salamanca alumni 16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic theologians