Ibn Tibbon
Ibn Tibbon family ( Hebrew : ), whose members are sometimes called is a family of rabbis of Provence featuring the Hebrew translation of philosophical works and others, playing an important role in the transmission of ancient knowledge.
The Tibbonides lived mainly in the south of France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Several members of this family have distinguished themselves, especially Judah ibn Tibbon , his son Samuel ibn Tibbon , and the son of one, Moshe ibn Tibbon.
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Members of the family known Ibn Tibbon
- Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon (1120-1190), first known member of this family, is a physician and translator of the works of Jewish philosophy pre-Maimonides ( Saadia Gaon , Ibn Bahya Paquda , Judah Halevi ), and two great- language works Yona ibn Jannah
- Samuel ibn Tibbon , ( 1,150 - 1 230 ), son of the former is the most famous Tibbonides, known for his translation of the by Moses Maimonides
- Moses ben Samuel ibn Tibbon (died around 1283), son of the former, is a translator, philosopher and exegete
- Judah ben Moses ibn Tibbon, son of the former, is a major player in the controversy over the writings of Maimonides. Rabbi of Montpellier , he leads his cousin, Jacob ben Tibbon ibn Makhir (see below), the camp pro-Maimonides, by showing that anti-Maimonides also attack their grandfather, Samuel ibn Tibbon, and the latter's son, Jacob Anatoli. Accordingly, Jacob ben Makhir protest against reading the letter of Rabbi Solomon ben Adret community of Montpellier, who nevertheless held in the synagogue of the city the next day, a Sabbath in the month of Elul 1304 , Judah ben Moshe wrote many works, and made several translations, which had been leased by Ramban. However, nothing has been preserved.
- Samuel ben Moses ibn Tibbon, brother of the above is mentioned in one of Solomon ben Adret ), concerning the lawsuit filed by Samuel to his rich cousin, Bionguda, the youngest of three daughters, Bella, the sister of Moshe ibn Tibbon. After the death of her husband, Jacob ha-Kohen (1254), Bella had gone to Marseilles, where Bionguda had united to some Isaac ben Isaac. Samuel ibn Tibbon, which at that time, probably lived in Marseille, challenged the legality of the union, saying he had done with his legal wife Bionguda, when it was still living in Naples, which she denied. The trial related to the dispute has been studied by Isidore Loeb and by Heinrich Graetz .
- Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Makhir , said Don Profiat Tibbon (1236 - 1304), cousin of the preceding, is a translator and illustrious medieval astronomer whose work was used by Nicolas Copernicus , Erasmus Reinhold and Christophorus Clavius.
- Isaac ben Moshe ibn Tibbon ( XV century ) appears as a copyist established on the island of Candia .
Other
Abraham ibn Tibbon is the translator of the of Aristotle in Hebrew. His relationship with Tibbonides is unknown.
References
- Abba Mari , Minat ena'ot, correspondence No. 21 and 22
- Ibid. No. 39
- A. Neubauer , in Journal of Jewish Studies , Vol. xii. pp. 82 and following
- I. Loeb, a trial in the Family Ibn Tibbon, Paris, 1886
- Graetz, Monatsschrift, vol. xxxvi. p. 49
- Steinschneider, Mose Israelitic Antologia, 1879, ii. 457; 1880, iii. 283
Source
This article incorporates text from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1901-1906, article "Ibn Tibbon" by Max Schloessinger , Isaac Broyd & Richard Gottheil , a publication now in the public domain.
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