The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John Bar-Hebraeus / / E.A. Wallis Budge.
The first complete edition, containing 727 "laughable stories", by Bar-Hebraeus. It was the child of the compiler's old age, and says much for the broadmindedness and versatility of the learned Bar-Hebraeus.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- PROLOGUE BY BAR-HEBRÆUS
- LIST OF CHAPTERS
- SAYINGS OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS
- SAYINGS OF THE PERSIAN SAGES
- SAYINGS OF THE INDIAN SAGES
- SAYINGS OF THE HEBREW SAGES
- SAYINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN RECLUSES
- SAYINGS OF THE MUHAMMADAN KINGS
- STORIES OF TEACHERS AND LEARNED MEN
- SAYINGS OF THE ARAB ASCETICS
- SAYINGS OF PHYSICIANS
- STORIES OF THE SPEECH OF IRRATIONAL BEASTS
- STORIES OF WEALTHY AND LIBERAL MEN
- STORIES OF MISERS
- STORIES OF MEN WHO FOLLOWED DESPISED HANDICRAFTS
- STORIES OF ACTORS AND COMEDIANS
- STORIES OF CLOWNS AND SIMPLETONS
- STORIES OF LUNATICS AND DEMONIACS
- STORIES OF THIEVES AND ROBBERS
- STORIES OF WONDERFUL EVENTS
- PHYSIOGNOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS DESCRIBED
- APOLOGUE BY BAR-HEBR/EUS
- MISCELLANEOUS MORAL EXHORTATIONS
- BAR-HEBRÆEUS ON THE DEATH OF JOHN BAR-MA' DANI
- INDEX
- SYRIAC TEXT