Word: talmud
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Joseph Jacobs, of London, delivered the last of the lectures before the Semitic Conference last night upon "The Fables of the Talmud...
There are in all thirty fables in the Talmud which have come down in Esop's Fables, until now they are well known folk-lore. In looking at the original source of the fables we find that they came first from India. Then they were taken up by the Greeks, including Esop, and by them handed down to the Romans. Of the 30 fables of the Talmud, 18 can be traced to Classic and Indian origin and 5 to the purely Indian. The remainder are of later growth and of purely Talmudic origin...
...Semitic Lecture. III. Fables in the Talmud. Mr. Joseph Jacobs, of London. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Fables in the Talmud. Joseph Jacobs, of London...
...Fables in the Talmud. Joseph Jacobs, of London...