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IBN TIBBON

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IBN TIBBON , a See also:family of Jewish translators, who flourished in See also:Provence in the 12th and 13th centuries. They all made See also:original contributions to philosophical and scientific literature, but their permanent fame is based on their See also:translations. Between them they rendered into See also:Hebrew all the See also:chief Jewish writings of the See also:middle ages. These Hebrew translations were, in their turn, rendered into Latin (by See also:Buxtorf and others) and in this See also:form the See also:works of Jewish authors found their way into the learned circles of See also:Europe. The chief members of the Ibn Tibbon family were (1) See also:JUDAH See also:BEN See also:SAUL (1120-1190), who was See also:born in See also:Spain but settled in Lunel. He translated the works of Bahya, See also:Halevi, Saadiah and the grammatical See also:treatises of _Tangy. (2) His son, See also:SAMUEL (1150-1230), translated the See also:Guide of the Perplexed by See also:Maimonides. He justly termed his See also:father " the father of the Translators," but Samuel's own method surpassed his father's in lucidity and fidelity to the original. (3) Son of Samuel, See also:MosEs (died 1283). He translated into Hebrew a large number of Arabic books (including the Arabic form of See also:Euclid). The Ibn Tibbon family thus rendered conspicuous services to See also:European culture, and did much to further among See also:Jews who did not understand Arabic the study of See also:science and See also:philosophy. (I.

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