Judah ben Isaac Cardinal (or ''Cardineal'') was a translator who lived at the end of the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth, probably in

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. At the request of Joseph ben Baruch, who, according to

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, traveled from France to Jerusalem by way of Egypt in 1211, Cardinal translated from Arabic into Hebrew

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's ''

Kuzari The ''Kuzari'', full title ''Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion'' (; : ''Kitâb al-ḥujja wa'l-dalîl fi naṣr al-dîn al-dhalîl''), also known as the Book of the Khazar (: ''Sefer ha-Kuzari''), is one of the most ...

''. This translation, which, with the exception of several small fragments, is no longer in existence, was used by Nathanael ben Nehemiah Kaspi in his commentary on the ''Kuzari'' entitled Edut le-Yisrael'', and also by Judah ben Joseph Moscato in his commentary ''Qol Yehudah''.

References

* Wolf, ''Bibl. Hebr.'' i. 772; *

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, ''Dizionario'', p. 162; * Dukes, in ''Orient. Lit''. 1840, p. 588; 1849, p. 453; *

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, ''Cuzari'', p. 20; *

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, ''Hebr. Übers''. p. 404; *

, ''Notes on Benjamin of Tudela'', ed. Asher, ii. 256.G. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cardinal, Judah ben Isaac 12th-century births 13th-century deaths 12th-century translators 13th-century translators 13th-century French writers Arabic–Hebrew translators French translators French male non-fiction writers Writers of lost works