Meshal haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni /
Meshal haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = ספר משל הקדמוני /
A presentation of the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain seen through moralistic animal fables in Hebrew, translated into English as rhymed couplets. The fables, which comprise moral debates rich in contemporary satire, also include disquisition...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
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Oxford, UK :
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
2004.
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| Series: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1rmgxp |
| Summary: | A presentation of the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain seen through moralistic animal fables in Hebrew, translated into English as rhymed couplets. The fables, which comprise moral debates rich in contemporary satire, also include disquisitions on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore. With full explanatory notes and scholarly apparatus and complete sets of illustrations from the Rothschild manuscript and the 1547 Venice edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (cxxxi, 816 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781909821354 1909821357 9781874774563 1874774560 |