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Zerahiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel Ḥen (Gracian)

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זרחיה בן יצחק בן שאלתיאל חן

Region: Barcelone / Tolède, puis Rome

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Spanish Jewish scholar settled in Rome around 1277. Prolific translator from Arabic into Hebrew: Aristotle (Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul), Averroès, Al-Farabi, medical treatises of Galen and Avicenna, and works by Maimonides. Author of philosophical commentaries on Proverbs (1288) and on Job.

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