Moisés Arragel

Moses Arragel
TitleRabbi
Personal life
Born1400 (1400)
Guadalajara, Spain
Died1493 (aged 92–93)
NationalitySpanish
Religious life
ReligionJudaism

Rabbi Moisés Arragel (1400 – 1493) was a Spanish rabbi of the fifteenth century who was known for translating and compiling the Arragel Bible.

Biography

Arragel was born in the city of Guadalajara, Spain in 1400.[1][2][3]

In 1422, Arragel relocated to Maqueda.[4] He would become the rabbi for the community.[5][6]

Shortly after arriving in Maqueda, Grand Master Luis González de Guzmán of the Order of Calatrava would reach out to Arragel. Don Guzmán sent a letter to Arragel on April 5, 1422 requesting that the rabbi "vna biblia en rromançe, glosada e ystoriada," assist him in creating a Catalan translation of the Old Testament with Jewish Commentary. It is unknown what convinced Rabbi Arragel to accept as he initially hesitated in an extensive reply letter to Don Guzmán, but Arragel ultimately agreed to the project that would eventually be known as the Alba Bible.[7]

Arragel worked on the translation and commentary from 1422 to 1430, in Maqueda with the assistance of two Franciscan monks from Toledo assigned to him by Don Guzmán to do the illustrations.[3][8] He was careful to remain faithful to the Jewish understanding of the texts and included Midrashic commentary as well. It was completed on June 2, 1430 and presented by Arragel, with much ceremony, to Don Guzmán in Toledo, in the presence of a concourse of prominent and learned men.[9]

Arragel died in the year 1493.[2][10][11]

References

  1. ^ "Promotora Española de Lingüística". www.proel.org. 2013. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  2. ^ a b Hughes, Aaron W.; Robinson, James T. (2021-03-12). Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-04254-5.
  3. ^ a b Sanz y Diaz, Jose. "Moisés Arragel de Guadalajara". Biblioteca Universitaria Universidad de Castilla. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 13, 2021.
  4. ^ Berns, Andrew D. (2022-04-12). The Land Is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-9831-4.
  5. ^ Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries: Another Image. BRILL. 2019-05-06. ISBN 978-90-04-39570-1.
  6. ^ Franco, Borja; Pomara, Bruno; Lomas, Manuel; Ruiz, Bárbara (2016-05-09). Identidades cuestionadas: Coexistencia y conflictos interreligiosos en el Mediterráneo (ss. XIV-XVIII) (in Spanish). Universitat de València. ISBN 978-84-370-9974-3.
  7. ^ Lipton, Wallace S. (1969). "A Blurred Encounter in Moses Arragel's Epistle on the Alba Bible". MLN. 84 (2): 298–304. doi:10.2307/2908023. ISSN 0026-7910. JSTOR 2908023.
  8. ^ Carl-otto Nordstrom (1967). The Duke of Alba's Castilian Bible. Internet Archive.
  9. ^ Gottheil, Richard. "ARRAGEL, MOSES". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2025-10-27.
  10. ^ Borovaya, Olga (2017-03-13). The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-02584-5.
  11. ^ Heller, Marvin J. (2024-04-22). Further Essays on the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-69320-3.
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