Petrus Alphonsi was a Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist who was born and raised as a Jew and later in life converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso, and was born Moses Sephardi.
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Pedro Alfonso/Petrus Alphonsi in a 15th-century imagined portrait
Petrus Alfonsi's Tetragrammaton-Trinity diagram, which influenced Joachim of Fiore and the development of the Shield of the Trinity diagram
A 13th-century Belgian manuscript showing the dialogue between the Jew "Moyses" and the Christian "Petrus"
Alphonsi "was probably the first to connect the 'ineffable' trinity with the 'ineffable' Tetragram".Writers born in the 1060s 6
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Petrus Alphonsi was a Spanish physician, writer, astronomer and polemicist who was born and raised as a Jew and later in life converted to Christianity in 1106. He is also known just as Alphonsi, and as Peter Alfonsi or Peter Alphonso, and was born Moses Sephardi. Born in Islamic Spain, he mostly lived in England and France after his conversion.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1062 to 1140 · aged 78
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17 languages
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