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.
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
The Life of Isaac Ibn Sahula
xv
Literary Structure and Synopsis
xxiv
Ibn Sahula as Fabulist
l
Philosophy and Science: The Excursuses
lix
The Spanish Historical Background
Ixx
The Social Context of the Fables
lxxxvi
Hebrew Solecisms
cvii
The Text
cxi
The Illustrations
cxxiii
Translations
cxxvi
MESHAL HAQADMONI Fables from the Distant Past
Dedication
2
(3)
Prologue
5
(3)
Introduction
8
(12)
Preface to Part
20
(21)
On Wisdom
41
(112)
On Penitence
153
(176)
On Sound Counsel
329
(90)
On Humility
419
(134)
On Reverence
553
(216)
Colophons
720
(7)
Appendices
1. Astronomical Diagrams
727
(8)
2. Supplementary Notes to the Poem
735
(32)
3. Numbered Notes to the Illustrations
767
(2)
Bibliography
769
(22)
Index of Citations
791
(8)
Index of Key Hebrew Terms
799
(3)
Index of Subjects
802
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