Alfonso de Zamora

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Alfonso de Zamora was Spanish Rabbi who converted to Roman Catholicism. He was baptized in 1506; died 1531. He revised the Hebrew text for Ximenes's Polyglot Bible, translated the Chaldee paraphrase in it, and added the sixth volume. He published also a work called "Introductiones Hebraicae" (Alcala, 1526).

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.