Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Fox Fables

Berechiah ha-Nakdan, (1200s CE) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, and translator; his name means "Berechiah the Punctuator (or grammarian)", indicating his possible profession. He is best known for his Hebrew work, Mishlei Shualim, which is derived from a collection of Aesop's fables. Berechiah's work adds a layer of Biblical quotations and allusions to Aesop's tales, adapting them as a way to teach Jewish ethics. Much discussion has taken place concerning the date and native country of this writer, placi ...

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• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Fox Fables
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - The Wolf and the Animals
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Ethical treatises
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Other Works
• Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Bibliography

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Berechiah is known chiefly as the author of a set of over a hundred fables, called Mishle Shualim. Manuscripts exist at the Bodleian (Neubauer, "Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS." No. 1466, 7, originally belonging to Cotton, and 1421, 5, with six additional fables) and Munich (207 written before 1268). The first edition appeared in Mantua, in 1557; another with a Latin version by M. Hanel, Prague, 1661; other editions at Berlin, 1706; Lemberg, 1809; Grodno, 1818; Sklov, n.d.; Warsaw, 1874. An English translation appeared in 1967 by Moses Hadas, entitled Fables of a Jewish Aesop; it has rec ...

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Berechiah ha-Nakdan, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Fox Fables, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - The Wolf and the Animals, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Ethical treatises, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Other Works, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Bibliography

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In addition to these, Berechiah wrote a commentary on the Book of Job. He was acquainted with most of the grammarians of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and his "Uncle Benjamin," whom he quotes, has been identified with Benjamin of Canterbury. Berechiah was a translator, his version being extant of Adelard of Bath's "Quæstiones Naturales" (MSS. at Munich, Leyden, Oxford, and Florence), as well as of a "Lapidary" containing a description of 63 species of stones (MS. in Bodleian). Besides these works, Berechiah is also said by Zunz ...

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Berechiah ha-Nakdan, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Fox Fables, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - The Wolf and the Animals, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Ethical treatises, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - His Other Works, Berechiah ha-Nakdan - Bibliography

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