He was a significant early translator of works of scholastic philosophy from Latin into Hebrew.
Jean Francois Champollion was one of the early translators.
But for the writers and early translators of the Gospels, it was a very precise term, denoting a very exact figure.
The translation is not literal; and in this Shem-Ṭob departed from the method of the earlier translators.
Wall has done a good and responsible translation of "Madame Bovary," with suitable reference to earlier translators.
Much of the early material of earlier translators was gathered by Sengyou and would have been lost but for him.
As a result, many early translators used rhyme and worked Sappho's ideas into English poetic forms.
He was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese language editions.
As a result, some early translators tended toward over-literalness.
Thirty-seven of these early translators of Buddhist texts are known.