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Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus was a French Jewish philosopher and controversialist. He lived at Arles, perhaps at Avignon also, and in other places, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He belonged to the well-known Nathan family, which claimed its descent from David; he was probably the grandson of the translator Maestro Bongodas Judah Nathan. According to the statement of Isaac himself, in the introduction to his concordance (see below), he was completely ignorant of the Bible until his fifteenth year, his studies having been restricted to the Talmud and to religious philosophy. Later he took up other branches of learning, and owing to his frequent association with Christians and to the numerous anti-Jewish writings of Jewish apostates that appeared at that time, he turned his attention to religious controversy. ==Works== Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus was the author of the following Jewish apologetic works (some are still extant, and some are known only through citations): * ''Tokaḥat Mat'eh'', against Joshua Lorki (Geronimo de Santa Fé after baptism)〔Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi ''Bibliotheca Antichristiana'', pp. 76–77〕 * ''Mibẓar Yiẓḥaḳ'', counter-missionary anti-Christian polemics〔De Rossi, l.c.〕 * ''Me'ah Debarim'', for the instruction of youth, twenty-one essays on various topics, the Biblical names of God forming one, another being on the Masorah〔Collection of I. S. Reggio and Schorr〕 * ''Me'ammeẓ Koaḥ'', on virtue and vice, in three parts〔Neubauer, ''Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS.'' No. 2232〕 * ''Meïr Netib'', a Hebrew Biblical concordance upon which the author worked from 1437 to 1447 * * with a philosophico-exegetical introduction (''Petiḥat Meïr Netib'') containing a Jewish refutation of the arguments contained in the epistle of the fictitious Samuel of Morocco, who endeavored to demonstrate from the Jewish Bible the Messiahship of Jesus (introduction to Nathan's concordance) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isaac Nathan ben Kalonymus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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