The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus


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Sixty-eight of these stories have been published before, eight by Adler, Bernstein and others, and sixty by Morales; but the remainder now appear in print for the first time. The text is edited from two MSS. CLXXIII, the greater part of which was written about the year , we have the text much as it existed about fifty years after the compiler's death.

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No attempt has been made to trace the source of all the stories and sayings, for. As was to be expected in a work devoted to a delineation of the virtues, and follies, and vices of man, by means of proverbs, anecdotes and narratives, a number of stories occur which would have been omitted by an occidental compiler.

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These have, however, been relegated to the respectable obscurity of the Latin, tongue by my friend Mr. A peculiar interest attaches itself to the "Book of Laughable Stories" for it was the child of the compiler's old age. Lists of proverbs and moral and religious aphorisms have been the normal product of the writers of.

It has been the fashion among some to scoff at Syriac literature as being the product of priests and monks who had no knowledge of the profane writings of other nations; that the greater part of it as known to us relates to ecclesiastical matters is true beyond a doubt, but that the greatest Syriac writers had other interests is also equally true, and of these Bar-Hebraeus is the most brilliant example. The "Book of Laughable stories" covers a wide ground, and embraces a very miscellaneous group of subjects.

Sixty-eight of these stories have been published before: A peculiar interest attaches itself to the "Book of Laughable Stories," for it was the child of the compiler's old age.

The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus

And it says much for the broadmindedness and versatility of the learned and venerable Bar-Hebraeus that, while his mind was closely occupied with history and philosophy and with the writings on works of grammar and other difficult subjects, the enthusiastic churchman found time to jot down notes of the witty, cynical, amusing, edifying, and didactic sayings and narratives which he came across during his perusal of the literatures of the Jews and Greeks, Arabs and Persians, Indians and Syrians.

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