Title Meshal haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni / edited and translated by Raphael Loewe Meshal haqadmoni : fables from the distant past : a parallel Hebrew-English text = ספר משל הקדמוני / edited and translated by Raphael Loewe

Published Oxford, UK : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (cxxxi, 816 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The Littman library of Jewish civilization Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Fables, Hebrew. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. Fables, Hebrew Form Electronic book Author Loewe, Raphael סהולה, יצחק בן שלמה אבן ISBN 9781909821354 1909821357

Other Titles 880-02 Meshal ha-ḳadmoni. English & Hebrew 880-02/(2/r משל הקדמוני. אנגלית & עברית 880-04 Sefer Meshal ha-ḳadmoni 880-04/(2/r ספר משל הקדמוני

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