Contents and sources of the book “Foxes Parables” by Rabbi Berechiya Hanqadan “A Critical Comparative Study”

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Faculty of Arts at Assiut University

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The study showed the difference between the parable, the story, and the parable, for the proverb is a brief saying, its wording does not change due to its connection with its original source, a. The study also explained the need of societies for stories in the language of animals and birds (the parables), to provide advice and guidance without embarrassment, and the parables appeared in Jewish thought starting from the era of the Talmud and some of them became common in religious writings, and some of them lived in the middle of the 13th century in England during his reign to the Hebrew texts, and was able to coexist with the English society that ostracized the Jews in the twelfth century AD, and called the book "Fox Parables" while containing only 15 parables specific to foxes out of 119 parables, which makes it likely that the name is a projection on the Jews, as he He wrote "Foxs’s Parables"  a collection of stories in the language of animals, where he presented them in great detail beyond their source with some changes, and the fox has been known in human cultures as the wily swindler dodger; which suggests his ability to deal with all situations in life, yet he was called a fraud in Rabbi Akif's story, and "Barkhia Hanqdan" was able to present a different image of the fox in projecting it on the Jew, and that is when he described the fox as brave, and the sources of the metaphors of foxes varied among Greek thought And the Hindi and the Arabic, in addition to the literary nuance in some phrases, and "Barkhia Hanqdan" was able to come up with two forms The fox in his proverbs has two opposites to the common traits of foxes, which are courage and stupidity, and "Barakhia Hanqdan" did not succeed when I inserted into the texts of his proverbs passages from the proverbs that agreed with the meaning and were incompatible with the events of the parable

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