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A rabbi, political leader, diplomat, physician, scientist, mathematician, philosopher, and biblical exegete, Moses ben Baruch Almosnino was one of the most important Jewish leaders in the post-expulsion period and was the central intellectual figure in sixteenth-century Jewish Salonica. Well versed in rabbinic literature, science, and philosophy, Almosnino was also a prolific writer. All around, he was an exemplary “chacham kolel” (lit., “general erudite,” or “well-rounded scholar”) and a great Jewish Renaissance man.
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Fleming, K.E. (2015). Almosnino, Moshe (Moises) ben Baruch. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_12-1
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