Capitolo 11
accuracy. Aquila followed the Israelite word of text from word. This translator
it is identical with Onkelos, to whom in later centuries Aramaic
translation (_Targum_ Onkelos) of the Pentateuch was attributed. Aramaic
versions of the Bible were made to a very first period and the Targum
Onkelos can contain ancient elements, but in his/her present form it is not
first than the fifth century.
Meir that we pick up as representative of the third generation of Tannaim,
you/he/she was filled with the widest understanding. In his/her conception of the truth,
everything that men can know has belonged to the Torah. Not that the Torah
replaced or it absorbed every other knowledge, but that the Torah had need,
for his/her correct study, all the helps that science and secular information
you/he/she could provision. In so Jewish literature it was to of the saved extension
from the danger to become only a religious exercise, and in later
centuries, when the mass of Hebrews was prepared to despise and to equalize
you discourage the scientific and philosophical culture, a minority was always
him prepared to withstand this tendency and, on the earth of the perspectives of some
of the Tannaim Meir likes, churches the right to study what we now owe
term secular sciences. The ampleness of the understanding of Meir can be seen in his
tolerant behavior toward his/her friend Elisha, the child of Abuya. When the
forsook Judaism according to, Meir was true to Elisha. He devoted him
to I strive him/it to win again his/her old friend, and, although he failed, him
it never stopped loving him/it. Of, new Meir was famous for his/her knowledge of
fables, in antiquity a branch of the wisdom of the whole Oriental world.
Meir great-mindedness it was coupled from his great-heartedness, and in his
wife Beruriah he possessed a companion which tender understanding and fine
tolerance joined his really.
The fourth generation of Tannaim is darkened by the fame of Judah
the Prince, _Rabbi_ as him had simply called. He lived from 150 to 210,
and with his/her name the compilation of the Mishnah is in partnership. A man of