Giovanni Battista Jona, originally Judah Jonah of

Safed Safed (known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as Tzfat; Sephardi Hebrew, Sephardic Hebrew & Modern Hebrew: צְפַת ''Tsfat'', Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation, Ashkenazi Hebrew: ''Tzfas'', Biblical Hebrew: ''Ṣǝp̄aṯ''; ar, صفد, ''Ṣafad''), i ...

, (d.1678), was a Hebrew writer at the

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. Along with the censor Domenico Gerosolimitano he was one of two converted Jewish ''Scriptens'' at the Vatican who each produced translations of the New Testament into Hebrew.W. Faber, «Zwei Ùbersetzer des Neuen Testaments ( Domenico Gerosolimitano und Giovanni Battista Jona)», Saat auf Hoffnung 15 (1888), pp. 33-38.

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1678 deaths 16th-century Italian Jews Translators of the New Testament into Hebrew Year of birth unknown Jewish translators of the Bible {{Bible-translator-stub