On a Pious Man, Adulterous Wife, and the Pleasure of Preaching to Others in Yitshaq Ibn Sahula's "Meshal ha-Qadmoni"

Sara Offenberg

On a Pious Man, Adulterous Wife, and the Pleasure of Preaching to Others in Yitshaq Ibn Sahula's "Meshal ha-Qadmoni"

Sara Offenberg

Department of Arts

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

The Castilian Jewish scholar Yitshaq Ibn Sahula wrote a Hebrew illuminated fable book called "Meshal ha-Qadmoni" in 1281. This paper examines one of these fables, about a Muslim's man's adulterous wife. The current study offers an in-depth look at the text amd images, and reexamines the husband's deeds within the context of polemical point of view, against the background of contemporary textual and artistic evidence.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	103-125
Number of pages	23
Journal	Hispania Judaica Bulletin
Issue number	12
State	Published - 2016

Keywords

Adultery in art
Fables
Hebrew -- History and criticism
Isaac ben Solomon
Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts
Judaism -- Relations -- To 1500
Sahula
active 13th century. Meshal ha-ḳadmoni

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On a Pious Man, Adulterous Wife, and the Pleasure of Preaching to Others in Yitshaq Ibn Sahula's "Meshal ha-Qadmoni"

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