Alfonso de Alcalá (

Alcalá la Real Alcalá la Real is a city in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2024 INE figures, the city had a population of 21,581. Geography Alcalá la Real is situated from the provincial capital, Jaén, and from Granada, on the slopes of L ...

, 1520s) was a Spanish physician, professor of medicine and also Hebraist. He is to be distinguished from the Hebraist

Alfonso de Zamora Alfonso de Zamora (1474 - ) was a Jewish-Spanish scholar and a major contributor to the Complutensian Polyglot Bible. Like many Spanish Jews during the persecutions of the 15th century, Alfonso converted to Catholicism while remaining a Crypto-Jew ...

. He was formerly a physician and rabbi, but converted to Christianity prior to the

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

in 1492. Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros commissioned him, together with Alfonso of Zamora and Paul Nuñez Coronel 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 Alc ...

(1514–17).Magne Sæbø Hebrew Bible, Old Testament: From the Renaissance to the p288 2008 The group of editors (junta) consisted of three converted Jews, Alfonso of Alcala ́, Alfonso (Alonso) of Zamora (or Arcos) (ca. 1474–1544), Paul Coronel of Segovia (1480–1534), and of the two most famous Spanish humanists Antonio Marti

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