Pablo de Coronel or Paul Nuñez Coronel ( Segovia c.1480 – Salamanca, 30 September 1534) was a Spanish

Hebraist A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...

, and professor of Hebrew at the University of Salamanca. He trained to be a rabbi, but converted to Christianity prior to the

expulsion of the Jews from Spain The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion from Spain following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, which was enacted in order to eliminate their influence on Spain's large '' converso'' population and to ensure its members did not revert to Juda ...

in 1492. Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros commissioned him, together with Alfonso de Alcalá, of Alcalá la Real, to provide a new translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin for the

Complutensian Polyglot The Complutensian Polyglot Bible is the name given to the first printed polyglot of the entire Bible. The edition was initiated and financed by Cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (1436–1517) and published by Complutense University in Alca ...

(1514–17). He worked alongside another

converso A ''converso'' (; ; feminine form ''conversa''), "convert", () was a Jew who converted to Catholicism in Spain or Portugal, particularly during the 14th and 15th centuries, or one of his or her descendants. To safeguard the Old Christian po ...

Hebraist,

Alfonso de Zamora Alfonso de Zamora (1474-1544) was a Spanish rabbi who converted to Catholicism in 1506, but remained a secret Jew. He revised the Hebrew text for Ximenes's Polyglot Bible with Alfonso de Alcalá and Pablo de Coronel, translated the Aramaic p ...

. He was one of three scholars to take over Zamora's chair in Hebrew at the University of Salamanca.''Glosas rabínicas y sagrada escritura: tratado de

Pedro de Palencia :''To be distinguished from Pedro de Agén, bishop of Palencia (d.1139)'' Pedro de Palencia (fl. 1584-1620s) was a Dominican friar and professor of Hebrew in the Convent of Saint Stephen in Salamanca. He is mainly notable for his treatise on r ...

- Page 56 Elvira Pérez Ferreiro, 2004 "En los años 30, el licenciado Fidelfo, Pablo de Coronel y el licenciado Sánchez ocuparon la cátedra de hebreo. En la siguiente década, Diego Sánchez de la Fuente, Alonso Gutiérrez, Pedro de Salazar y Martín Martínez de Cantalapiedra" He also wrote a commentary on the work of

Nicolas de Lyre Nicolas de Lyra __notoc__ 1479 Nicholas of Lyra (french: Nicolas de Lyre; – October 1349), or Nicolaus Lyranus, a Franciscan teacher, was among the most influential practitioners of biblical exegesis in the Middle Ages. Little is know ...

(c 1330), "Additiones ad Librum Nicolai Lirani de Differentiis Translationum (Verborum)," which survives only in manuscript.

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Spanish Hebraists Translators of the Bible into Latin People from Segovia 1480s births 1534 deaths University of Salamanca faculty Conversos Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism {{Spain-translator-stub