Meshal Haqadmoni : A Parallel Hebrew-English Text.
Loewe, Raphael.
Meshal Haqadmoni : A Parallel Hebrew-English Text. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (949 pages) - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series . - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series .
Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Publisher's Note -- The Illustrations -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Preface to the First Part -- Part I: On Wisdom -- Part II: On Penitence -- Part III: On Sound Counsel -- Part IV: On Humility -- Part V: On Reverence -- Colophons -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Astronomical Diagrams -- Appendix 2: Supplementary Notes to the Poem -- Appendix 3: Numbered Notes to the Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Citations -- Index of Key Hebrew Terms -- Index of Subjects.
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.
9781909821354
Fables, Hebrew.
Electronic books.
Meshal Haqadmoni : A Parallel Hebrew-English Text. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (949 pages) - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series . - The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series .
Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Publisher's Note -- The Illustrations -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Preface to the First Part -- Part I: On Wisdom -- Part II: On Penitence -- Part III: On Sound Counsel -- Part IV: On Humility -- Part V: On Reverence -- Colophons -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Astronomical Diagrams -- Appendix 2: Supplementary Notes to the Poem -- Appendix 3: Numbered Notes to the Illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of Citations -- Index of Key Hebrew Terms -- Index of Subjects.
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.
9781909821354
Fables, Hebrew.
Electronic books.