Ibn Sahul

Meshal haqadmoni
Fables from the Distant Past
Isaac Ibn Sahula
A Parallel Hebrew-English text
Edited and translated by Raphael Loewe

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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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Ibn Sahula Volume Two

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Raphael Loewe was formerly Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew at University College London, having previously taught at the University of Leeds and held a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a visiting professorship at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. His publications concern various aspects of Judaism in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and include much translation. His English translations of a substantial number of liturgical poems for the Passover season are contained in his Rylands Haggadah (1988), and others—among them the Royal Crown—in his Ibn Gabirol (1989). His translation of Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam into medieval Hebrew verse form was published in 1982. He is also a contributing author of the companion volumes to the facsimile editions of the Barcelona Haggadah (1992), the Rothschild Haggadah (2000), the Parma Psalter (1996), and the North French Miscellany (2002). Many other translations remain unpublished, being privately circulated among friends.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Format	23.5 x 15.5 cm/ 6" x 9"
Pages	956, 160 woodcuts and illuminations
ISBN	978-1-874774-56-3
Price	£75.00 / $125.00
Date of publication	February 2004

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