Author: Perry, T.A.
Title: The Moral Proverbs of Santob de Carrion: Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1987). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, ix,198 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Text of the 'Proverbios morales'; The Meaning of the 'Proverbios morales': The Rose & the Jew: A Jewish-Christian Polemic; Metaphors of Oppression & Triumph; Triadic Formulations of the Deadly Sins; The Physical World, Its Things & Its Mutability; The Ways of the Human World: Opinion & the Use of Things; Ethics & Behavior; Santob's Reading of Ecclesiastes: The World as Vanity & as Living Space; God & Repentance; Conclusion; Appendix: The Ideology of the 'Proverbios morales':The Anonymous Commentaro's Prologue in MS M.

Keywords: Medieval Jewish Ethics, Spanish Literature, Judaism, Santob de Carron, Ethical Philosophy, Theology, Spain Jews, Literary History,