Alfonso de Alcalá

Alfonso de Alcalá (Alcalá la Real, fl. 1520s) was a Spanish physician, professor of medicine and also Hebraist. He is to be distinguished from the Hebraist Alfonso de Zamora.

He was formerly a physician and rabbi, but converted to Christianity prior to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.^[1] Cardinal Ximenez de Cisneros commissioned him, together with Alfonso of Zamora and Paul Nuñez Coronel to provide a new translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin for the Complutensian Polyglot (1514–17).^[2]