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Yom Tob Athias
16th Century
Yom Tob Athias, also known as Jeronimo de Vargas, a typographer of Sephardic origin, settled in Ferrara. There, he printed the first full Spanish translation of the siddur (daily prayers; 1552), a translation that was frequently reprinted over coming centuries. Together with another former New Christian of Portuguese origin, Abraham ben Samuel Usque (Duarte Pinel), he printed the first Spanish translation of the Hebrew Bible, which came to be known as the Ferrara Bible (1553).
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Dedication (to Gracia Nasi): Ferrara Bible
It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
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Spanish Translation of the Bible
In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…