Moses Belmonte (1619 – 29 May 1647 in
Amsterdam
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) was a poet and translator, the eighth child of
Jacob Belmonte
Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...
, also known as
Jacob Israel Belmonte. He was a pupil of
Saul Levi Morteira
Saul Levi Morteira or Mortera ( 1596 – 10 February 1660) was a rabbi in Amsterdam. He was born in Venice, so he was neither a Sephardic or Ashkenazic Jew. He became a prominent figure in the city's community of exiled Portuguese Jews. H ...
, whose sermons (''Gib'at Sha'ul'', 1645) he edited together with
Benjamin Diaz. His poem "Argumenta Contra os Noserim" has been reprinted by De Castro in his ''Keur van Grafsteenen''. Belmonte translated the ''Song of Songs'' into Spanish. It was published in Hebrew characters in several editions of the Bible printed at Venice; then in Amsterdam, 1644, under the title ''Paraphrasis Caldaica en los Cantares de Selomo con el Texto; Traduzida en Lengua Española''. He also translated the ''
Pirqe Abot'' into Spanish (''Perakym'', Amsterdam, 1644).
Belmonte founded the Gemilut Chasadim society in 1639.
His brother was the engraver
Benjamin Senior Godines.
Dutch Sephardi Jews
Spanish poets
Spanish translators
Spanish Jews
1619 births
1647 deaths
Spanish male poets
17th-century translators
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