The Captured Child Who Read the Emperor's Book

Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 38

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38. Child & Book of Genesis. Tana debe Eliahu. Eliah Zutta, ch. 17,

f. 45 a.

Mahaneh Levi.

Midr. Hagadol Deut. Ekeb.

Midr. Decalogue V, 3. Nissim, f. 21b.

Ben Atar, No. 12. Kohut, al-Dhamari, App. I, No. 11, p. XII. Eliah Cohen, Meil Se-

7 m

daka § 440.

Eisenstein, Oser, p. 320. Yalk. Sip. II, p. 145 & 211.

Tendlau, Fellmeier,

No. 12.

Ben Gorion II, p. 76, 340-

Cod. Vatican, 285, No. 13. Codd. G. 130, No. 43 f. 110a; 184, No. 3 and 247; 185, f. 4a— 6a; 259, No. 1 7; 942, f. 23a.

Themes

Wisdom Tribes Rome Writing Adam Eve

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