Elijah ben Joseph Chabillo

Who is Elijah ben Joseph Chabillo?

Eli ben Joseph Chabillo was a Spanish philosopher who lived in Monzón, Aragon, in the second half of the fifteenth century.

He was an admirer of the Christian scholastics, and studied Latin in order to translate into Hebrew some of their works, especially those dealing with psychology. The works which he partly translated and partly adapted were the following

By Thomas Aquinas

Quæstiones Disputatæ, Quæstio de Anima

De Animæ Facultatibus, published by Adolf Jellinek in Philosophie und Kabbala, Leipzig, 1854

De Universalibus

She'elot Ma'amar be-Nimtza ube-Mahut questions on Thomas Aquinas' treatise on being and quality

By Occam

Three treatises of Summa Totius Logices to which he added an appendix

Quæstiones Philosophicæ

By Aristotle

De Causa thirty-two premises, with their explanations.

According to Jellinek and Moritz Steinschneider, Chabillo also translated, anonymously, Vincent of Beauvais' De Universalibus under the title Ma'amar Nikbad bi-Kelal.