Moses ben Joshua

Moses ben Joshua of Narbonne, also known as Moses of Narbonne, mestre Vidal Bellshom, maestro Vidal Blasom, and Moses Narboni, was a medieval Jewish philosopher and physician born in Perpignan in the Kingdom of Majorca at the end of the thirteenth century. He died sometime after 1362. He began studying philosophy with his father when he was thirteen and then studied with Moses and Abraham ben David Caslari. He studied medicine and eventually became a successful physician, and was well versed in Biblical and rabbinic literature.