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fables are historical more literary or religious. Israelite fables
provides one of the connections that connect the popular literature of the east
with that of the west. But they doesn't make part really of the true sense to
Jewish literature. Parables, on the other hand it was a main point and
branch of characteristic of that literature.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MIDRASH.
Schiller-Szinessy.--_Encycl. Brit._, Vol. XVI, P. 285.
Graetz.--II, P. 328 [331] _seq._
Steinschneider.--_Jewish Literature_, pp. 5 _seq._s,
36 _seq._s
L.N. Dembitz.--_Jewish Services in Synagogue and Home_
(Publication Jewish Society of America, 1898), p. 44.
FABLES.
J. Jacobs.--_The Fables of AEsop_ (London, 1889), me,
p. 110 _seq._s
Also reads Schechter, _Studies in Judaism_ p. 272 [331];
and _J.Q.R._, (Kohler), V, p. 399; VII, P. 581;
(Bacher) IV, p. 406; (Davis) VIII, p. 529; (Abrahams) me, p. 216;
II, P. 172; Chenery, _Legends from the Midrash_ (_Miscellany
of the Society of Israelite Literature_, Vol. II).
I CAPITULATE V
THE LETTERS OF THE GAONIM
Representative Gaonim:
Achai, Amram, Zemach, Saadiah, Sherira, Sam, Has.
For many centuries after the completion of the Talmud, Babylon or
Persia kept on holding the supremacy in Jewish culture. The great one
teachers in the Persian schools followed the same lines as them
predecessors in the Mishnah and the Talmud. Their name was changed more
what a their character. The title _Gaon_ (her "Excellence") you/he/she was applied to the
head of the school, the members of what it mainly devoted him to
the study and interpretation of the oldest literature. They also did
original contributions to the shop. Of their wide jobs but little
you/he/she has been preserved. What has survived test that they was given with
the faculty to for instance apply the old modern precept. They regulated
the social ones and religious business of all the Hebrews in the diaspora. Them
instructive methods and improved, and it was pioneers in the popularization of
learning. From a great harvest By law giurisprudenziale, that is, decisions in