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How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik. A Comparative Study of Nathan of the Radiance and The Story of Joseph the Gardener of Ashkelon and his Wife

How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik. A Comparative Study of Nathan of the Radiance and The Story of... How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik A v i d o v L i p s k e r, R a m a t - G a n How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik A Comparative Study of "Nathan of the Radiance" and 0 "The Story of Joseph the Gardener of Ashkelon and his Wife"* The East: Rabbi Nissim of Kairouan, Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu ah For those who seek to explore the ways in which the North African Jewish narrative was transferred to the communities of Ashkenaz, Hibbur Yafeh meha-Yeshu ah (The Book of Comfort) serves as a convenient point of departure. In this work, Rabbi Nissim of Kairouan compiled about sixty Talmudic stories, legends, fables and sayings. His major editorial innovation is the rejection of the traditional arrangement of texts according to the sequence of the Torah portions in favor of an independent literary editing. Motivated by his own moralistic, didactic aims 1, the compiler himself determined the structure and style of his work. Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu ah is thus the most striking literary work of the East 2, the forerunner of later Jewish narrative collections, as they emerged in Italy, Provence, and Ashkenaz. In its relatively http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Fabula de Gruyter

How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik. A Comparative Study of Nathan of the Radiance and The Story of Joseph the Gardener of Ashkelon and his Wife

Lipsker, Avidov
Fabula , Volume 42 (3-4) – Feb 21, 2002
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de Gruyter
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Copyright © 2001 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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0014-6242
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1316-0464
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10.1515/fabl.2002.003
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How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik A v i d o v L i p s k e r, R a m a t - G a n How One Becomes a Perfect Saddik A Comparative Study of "Nathan of the Radiance" and 0 "The Story of Joseph the Gardener of Ashkelon and his Wife"* The East: Rabbi Nissim of Kairouan, Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu ah For those who seek to explore the ways in which the North African Jewish narrative was transferred to the communities of Ashkenaz, Hibbur Yafeh meha-Yeshu ah (The Book of Comfort) serves as a convenient point of departure. In this work, Rabbi Nissim of Kairouan compiled about sixty Talmudic stories, legends, fables and sayings. His major editorial innovation is the rejection of the traditional arrangement of texts according to the sequence of the Torah portions in favor of an independent literary editing. Motivated by his own moralistic, didactic aims 1, the compiler himself determined the structure and style of his work. Hibbur Yafeh me-ha-Yeshu ah is thus the most striking literary work of the East 2, the forerunner of later Jewish narrative collections, as they emerged in Italy, Provence, and Ashkenaz. In its relatively

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