The Arragel Biblea 15th century Spanish Bible translation with commentary by Moshe Arragel of Guadalajarais a monumental work of Hispano-Jewish scholarship, an Old Spanish literary classic, and a privileged historical source on Jewish-Christian relations in medieval Iberia. The studies in Volume 1 of our edition in progress review three aspects of this Ibero-Jewish classic by way of introduction: its content and significance for the religious history and literatures of late medieval Spain; a linguistic analysis of Arragels Castilianhis lexical choices, morphology, and syntaxin its Ibero-Romance context; and an analytic description of the extant illuminated codex in Madrid.
Luis M. Girón Negrón is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He has published extensively on medieval and early modern Iberia, including Alfonso de la Torres Visión Deleitable (2001), Las Coplas de Yosef (2006) ) along with Laura Minervini, and El envés de lo inefable (2025).
Andrés Enrique-Arias is Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands. He is the author of over a hundred publications on Spanish historical linguistics, and the principal investigator of the Historical Atlas of Spanish and the Biblia Medieval Project.
F. Javier Pueyo Mena is a senior researcher at the CSIC who works on Medieval Spanish and Judeo-Spanish philology. He has published several articles and editions of Jewish biblical translations, including the volume Biblia Romanceada. BNE. Ms. 10288 (HSMS, 1996).
Ángel Saenz Badillos (1940 2013) was a professor of Hebrew literature at the Complutense University in Madrid and the leading Iberian Hebraist of his generation, with seminal publications on medieval Hebrew poetry, Semitic philology, and Jewish Bible interpretation.
