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Rabbi, translator and commentator of the Bible in Romance

Moses Arragel of Guadalajara

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1420s and 1430s

In the 1420s and 1430s he produced a Romance-language Bible with commentary, commissioned by Calatrava's grand master.

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Cultural creativity went on, and peaceable Jewish-Christian collaboration did not cease either. During the 1420s and 1430s, Rabbi Moses Arragel of Guadalajara prepared a Bible in Romance with commentary, commissioned by the head of the military Order of Calatrava. In 1476 a Hebrew press opened at Guadalajara, and printing in Hebrew was flourishing across Spain by the time of the expulsion.