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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
Contributor:
Abraham Portaleone
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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Now it is not my intention to be a wiseacre when I show people that some rabbinic statements should not be taken literally. Belonging to this genre, is the story of Og uprooting a mountain the size of…
Contributor:
Azariah de’ Rossi
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1573–1575