:''To be distinguished from Pedro de Agén, bishop of Palencia (d.1139)'' Pedro de Palencia (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1584-1620s) was a Dominican friar and professor of

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 ...

in the Convent of Saint Stephen in Salamanca. He is mainly notable for his treatise on rabbinical glosses. Pedro argued from the example of

Jerome Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian presbyter, priest, Confessor of the Faith, confessor, th ...

that knowledge of the

, over the Greek-language

Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...

translation, was needed to defend the Latin text, particularly in disputations against

Jews 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 ...

and heretics.''Negotiating the frontier: translators and intercultures in Hispanic History'' Anthony Pym - 2000 - 9781900650243: "Pedro de Palencia points out that Hieronymus had used the Hebrew in order to correct the Septaguint, that knowledge of the Hebrew was needed to defend the Latin text in disputations against Jews and heretics, and that the rabbinic.."

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