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Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past: A Parallel Hebrew-English Text

Meshal Haqadmoni: Fables from the Distant Past: A Parallel Hebrew-English Text

Loewe, Raphael

Hardcover

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

JudaismMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 1874774560
ISBN13: 9781874774563
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Feb 26 2004
Pages: 948
Weight: 5.29
Height: 2.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: Hebrew

The wondrous fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain.

Ibn Sahula wrote his fables in rhymed prose, here rendered into English as rhymed couplets. They comprise a series of satirical debates between a cynic and a moralist, put into the mouths of animals; the moralist always triumphs. The debates, which touch on such subjects as time, the soul, the physical sciences and medicine, astronomy, and astrology, amply reflect human foibles, political compromise, and court intrigue. They are suffused throughout with traditional Jewish law and lore, a flavour reinforced by the profusion of biblical quotations reapplied.

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