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3 unusual facts about Ibn Shaprut


Ibn Shaprut

Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut of Tudela (שם טוב אבן שפרוט) (born at Tudela in the middle of the 14th century) was a Spanish Jewish philosopher, physician, and polemicist.

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He settled at Tarazona, in Aragon, where he practised his profession of physician among both Jews and Christians.

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At Tarazona he completed his Eben Boḥan (May, 1380 or 1385), a polemical work against baptized Jews.



see also

Menahem ben Saruq

Menahem was a native of Tortosa, and went, apparently at an early age, to Cordoba, where he found a patron in Isaac ben Ezra ibn Shaprut, the father of the subsequent statesman Hasdai ibn Shaprut.