Bonafed, Solomon ben Reuben, active 14th-15th century

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Name (Hebrew)
בונפיד, שלמה בן ראובן
Name (Latin)
Bonafed, Solomon ben Reuben, active 14th-15th century
Other forms of name
Selomó ben Reuben Bonafed, active 14th-15th century
Bonafed, Šelomoh ben Reuben, active 14th-15th century
nnea Bonafed, Solomon ben Reuben, 14th-15th cent
Bonfed, Salomo
Bonfid, Shelomo ben Reuven, 15th cent
Bonafed, Solomon Ben Reuben, 15th cent
Bonafed, Selomoh
בונאפיד, שלמה בן ראובן
בונפיד, שלמה בן ראובן, סוף המאה ה-14 - אמצע המאה ה-15
Place of birth
Catalonia (Spain)
Associated Language
heb
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
מקום לידה: קאטאלוניה [ספרד]?
מקום לידה: Catalonia
תאריך לידה עברי: שליש אחרון של המאה הארבע-עשרה
תאריך פטירה עברי: אחר שנת ר"ה [1445].
חי בסאראגוסה Saragossa], ספרד] ובמקומות אחרים.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q2891222
Library of congress: no2011130247
Sources of Information
  • Encyc. Jud. online, 2007, August 10, 2011(Bonafed, Solomon ben Reuben; Spanish poet and thinker; b. bet. 1370 and 1380; resided in the Kingdom of Aragon; d. after 1445)
  • La disputa de Šelomoh Ben Re'uben Bonafed con la aljama de Zaragoza, 2010:t.p. (Šelomoh ben Re'uben Bonafed)
  • Wikipedia, August 10, 2011(Selomó ben Reuben Bonafed; resided principally in Zaragoza and later in Belchite; wrote mainly in Hebrew; d. after 1448)
  • Record enhanced with data from Bibliography of the Hebrew Book database
  • ח' שירמן, השירה העברית בספרד ובפרובאנס ב, ירושלים-תל-אביב (תשי"ז), עמ' 620.

Wikipedia description:

Solomon ben Reuben Bonfed (late 14th-century-early 15th century) was a Spanish rabbi and poet who lived in Zaragoza. Bonafed was a member of the group of Hebrew poets in Spain known as the ‘Adat Nognim or "Band of Minstrels" along with Solomon Dapiera, Vidal (Joseph) ben Lavi, Vidal Benveniste. He was the youngest member. His diwan, still extant in manuscript (Adolf Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 1984), is notable, as well as for the historical information contained in it. Bonfed was present at the controversy of Tortosa (1413–14); and many of his poems are addressed to those who took part in it. The diwan contains also an answer, in rimed prose, to a letter of the converted Jew, Astruc Raimuch of Fraga, in which the neophyte enthusiastically propounds the dogmas of Christianity, and endeavors to demonstrate the Trinity, original sin, and redemption, from the Bible. Apologizing for discussing the contents of a letter not addressed to him, Bonfed minutely examines the Christian dogmas, and proceeds to argue how irrational and untenable they are. He says: "You twist and distort the Bible text to establish the Trinity. Had you a quaternity to prove, you would demonstrate it quite as strikingly and convincingly from the Old Testament."

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