TY - GEN T1 - Meshal haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni T2 - Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) A1 - Sahula, Isaac ben Solomon, active 13th century A2 - Loewe, Raphael LA - English LA - Hebrew PP - Oxford, UK PB - Littman Library of Jewish Civilization YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1047960023 AB - 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. OP - 816 CN - PJ5050.S2 M4 2004eb SN - 9781909821354 SN - 1909821357 SN - 9781874774563 SN - 1874774560 KW - Fables, Hebrew. KW - Fables hébraïques. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Folklore & Mythology. KW - Fables, Hebrew ER -