M Gaster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958346 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Gaster |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaster |
| SIGNATURE | GASTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mortimer Surgery |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1890 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1938 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Isaac Abravanel
Dr. Hartwig Hirschfeld
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A. R. Wright
An Ancient Fairy-Tale Translated from the Hebrew
(1931). An Ancient Fairy-Tale Translated from the Hebrew. Folklore: Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 156-178
The Samaritan Hebrew Sources of the Arabic Book of Joshua
In 1848 Juynboll published the Arabic text with a Latin translation and elaborate introduction of a Samaritan work, which he called the Samaritan Chronicle. He printed it from a MS. in the Leyden library deposited there by Scaliger; this MS. belonged to the fourteenth century. It was written by two hands, the second part being of a somewhat later date. Juynboll was quite justified in callingit a chronicle, although the largest part of the MS. con…
The Legend of Telibinus and some Roumanian Carols
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Paul Kahle. Die Masoreten des Westems. [Texte und Untersuchungen zur Vormasoretischen Grammatik des Hebräischen I.] 8vo, xii, 89 66, . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1927. 14s
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Moses Maimonides, Fuehrer der Unschluessigen (Guide of the Perplexed Translated into German, with Explanatory Notes). By Dr.Adolf Weiss. Vols. I–III. Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1923–1924. 45 s .
The Ketubah
Rumanian Popular Legends of the Lady Mary
Roumanian Tales
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
The Killing of the Khazar Kings
III. A Samaritan MS. of the Second or Third Century: A Palæographic Study
All the elements are missing for even a moderate attempt at establishing definite rules for Samaritan Palæography. Of all the MSS. of the Pentateuch known in Europe only a few specimens have hitherto been published in facsimile, and, as far as I am aware, not one of them dated. The same holds good for all other Samaritan documents, prayer-books, letters, etc. There is therefore practically nothing to go upon, except personal experience, and the e…
Gulliver among the Lilliputians in the Twelfth Century, and the Tale of the Dog-Headed Men
Hermann Gollancz, M.A., D.Litt. The Book of Protection, being a Collection of Charms now edited for the first time from Syriac MSS. with translation, introduction, and notes. 8vo; lxxxvii, 103, with 2…
Hermann Gollancz, M.A., D.Litt. The Book of Protection, being a Collection of Charms now edited for the first time from Syriac MSS. with translation, introduction, and notes. 8vo; lxxxvii, 103, with 27 illustrations. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. - Volume 45 Issue 2
XXI Jewish Knowledge of the Samaritan Alphabet in the Middle Ages
The Jews have never practically lost sight of the Samaritans, unlike the Christians, who for at least a thousand years had entirely forgotten their existence, as no writer or pilgrim to the Holy Land speaks of them with the solitary exception of Mandeville. It was therefore a great surprise to the Western world when at the beginning of the seventeenth century the darkness began to be lifted, and through Scaliger, Huntingdon, and Della Valle for t…
Great Religions of the World
Max L. Margolis, Ph.D. A Manual of the Aramaic Language of the Babylonian Talmud. Grammar, Chrestomathy, and Glossaries. München: O. Beck, 1910. xvi + 99 + 184. 10 s
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XIV. The Sibyl and the Dream of One Hundred Suns: An Old Apocryphon
IN addition to the more or less accredited ancient Sibylline oracles, others circulated, under the name of the one or the other of the Sibyls, which also claimed to be of equal authority. The name was a recommendation for a special kind of apocalyptic literature, and the example set of old of foretelling the future was thereby continued for many centuries. The character of this Sibylline Oracle was akin to some of the old Apocalypses, in which th…
Parallels to the Legends of Candrahasa
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English Charms of the Seventeenth Century
XI. The Chain of Samaritan High Priests
The Samaritans possess three Chronicles, written in that mixed Hebrew idiom peculiar to them. In substance idential with one another, they differ in form. One is quite short, the second a little more expanded, and the third a further enlargement of the two previous ones. Of these Chronicles the second has been published by Dr. A. Neubauer, “Chronique Samaritaine” ( Asiatique ), 1869; and separately, Paris, 1873), from a copy made by the present H…
The Thirty-First Annual Report of the Council
The History of the Destruction of the Round Table as Told in Hebrew in the Year 1279
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
The Thirty-First Annual Report of the Council
Presidential Address
My Reply
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The Thirtieth Annual Report of the Council
Art. XIII.— Contributions to the History of Aḥiḳar and Nadan
The history of Aḥiḳar and his nephew Nadan forms part of Eastern popular literature. When publishing my history of Roumanian popular literature seventeen years ago (Bucureesti, 1883) I devoted a special chapter to the Roumanian versions of this history (pp. 104–114). I was the first to recognize the connection between the Roumanian and Slavonic versions and those contained in the Arabian Nights. I then drew attention to the intimate relation betw…
Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch
THE collection of Rumanian popular charms, made by Marian, begins with the following:-AGAINST THE CATARACT : George got up early and got ready; left the house, left the table, went on the road, on the pathway, strong and beautiful, pink and cheerful; but when he was in the middle of the road, of the road of the pathway, he was met by the Windmaids and by the '' Beautiful," who smote him in the face and hurled him to the ground, made his countenan…
Fairtytales from Inedited Hebrew MSS. of the Ninth and Twelfth Centuries
Art XV.—Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise
The recent recovery of the Revelation of St. Peter has again attracted attention to this branch of apocalyptic literature. Speculation has been rife as to the sources of that Revelation. I intend publishing now, for the first time in English garb, the oldest extant Revelations which must have served as source to that of Peter, then to that of Paul, Ezra, Abraham, Isaiah, Virgin Mary, St. Macarius, and the host of others down to Dante and St. Patr…
Miscellanea
The Legend of the Grail
Art XV.—Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise
The recent recovery of the Revelation of St. Peter has again attracted attention to this branch of apocalyptic literature. Speculation has been rife as to the sources of that Revelation. I intend publishing now, for the first time in English garb, the oldest extant Revelations which must have served as source to that of Peter, then to that of Paul, Ezra, Abraham, Isaiah, Virgin Mary, St. Macarius, and the host of others down to Dante and St. Patr…
Székely Tales
Origin and Sources of the Shulchan Aruch and the Sepher Assufoth
Art. XIII.—The Nigrodha-miga-Jātaka and the Life of St. Eustathius Placidus
In connection with the story of Paṭācārā I had occasion to refer (J.R.A.S. 1893, pp. 869–871) to a series of parallels in Eastern and Western literature, one of which was the life of St. Eustathius Placidus. The second half of this Vita contained those incidents which made me connect it with the cycle of which Paṭācārā seemed to be the prototype. The first half, however, was totally different, and must have been added to the other portion by the …
V. Notices of Books - Œuvres complètes de R. Saadia Ben Josef Al-Fayyoûmî publiées sous la direction de J. Derenbourg. Vol. I. Version Arabe du Pentateuque. Paris, 1893. With a second title: Version A…
V. Notices of Books - Œuvres complètes de R. Saadia Ben Josef Al-Fayyoûmî publiées sous la direction de J. Derenbourg. Vol. I. Version Arabe du Pentateuque. Paris, 1893. With a second title: Version Arabe du Pentateuque de R. S. B. J. Al-F., revue corrigée et accompagnée de notes hébraïques, avec quelques Fragments de Traduction française d'aprés l'arabe. Par J. D. - Volume 26 Issue 2
III. Notices of Books - Note to: Hebrew Visions of Hell and Paradise
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Two Monographs by Dr. M. Gaster
Art. VI.—The Sword of Moses. An ancient book of Magic, published for the first time, from an unique Manuscript (Cod. Heb., Gaster 178)
Magic has exercised the deepest influence upon mankind from remote antiquity unto our own days. It either formed part of the religion of the country, as it was the case in ancient Egypt and Babylon and as it is now in some forms of Buddhism (Tibet), or lived an independent life side by side with the recognized religion. In some instances it was tolerated, or rendered less obnoxious, by a peculiar subdivision into white or beneficial and black or …
Fairtytales from Inedited Hebrew MSS. of the Ninth and Twelfth Centuries
V. Notices of Books - G. Dalman. Grammatik des Jüdisch-Palästinischen Aramäisch, Nach den Idiomen des Palästinischen Talmud und Midrasch des Onkelostargum (Cod. Socini 84) und der Jerusalemischen Targ…
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Art. XIX.—An old Hebrew Romance of Alexander
More marvellous and more remarkable than the real conquests of Alexander are the stories circulated about him, and the legends which have clustered round his name and his exploits. The history of Alexander has, from a very early period, been embellished with legends and tales. They spread from nation to nation during the whole of the ancient times, and all through the Middle Ages. Many scholars have followed up the course of this dissemination of…
Art. XXIV.—“ The Twelve Dreams of Sehachi .”
Among the tales that make up the well-known Kalilah and Dimnah cycle, or the Fables of Bidpai, there is one which has a history of its own. In the Syriac version published by Bickell, probably the oldest text available, it is called the “Gate of Bilar” (German translation, p. 93 ff.). In the Arabic recension, and in the Syriac which rests upon it, it is called similarly, “The Story of the Wise Bilar.” A full account of this text, together with an…
Art. XIII.— Contributions to the History of Aḥiḳar and Nadan
The history of Aḥiḳar and his nephew Nadan forms part of Eastern popular literature. When publishing my history of Roumanian popular literature seventeen years ago (Bucureesti, 1883) I devoted a special chapter to the Roumanian versions of this history (pp. 104–114). I was the first to recognize the connection between the Roumanian and Slavonic versions and those contained in the Arabian Nights. I then drew attention to the intimate relation betw…
Two Thousand Years of a Charm against the Child-stealing Witch
THE collection of Rumanian popular charms, made by Marian, begins with the following:-AGAINST THE CATARACT : George got up early and got ready; left the house, left the table, went on the road, on the pathway, strong and beautiful, pink and cheerful; but when he was in the middle of the road, of the road of the pathway, he was met by the Windmaids and by the '' Beautiful," who smote him in the face and hurled him to the ground, made his countenan…
A New Fragment of Ben Sira
Correspondence.
Art. VII.—The Logos Ebraikos in the Magical Papyrus of Paris, and the Book of Enoch
The scholars who have studied hitherto the Greek magical papyri, such as Parthey, Wessely, Dieterich, and others, have either concentrated their attention upon the Greek forms contained in these documents, or have tried to find a connecting link between these books, notably between the weird notions contained therein and Greek and Egyptian parallels. Greek mysteries have been adduced in order to explain some of the curious notions prevailing in t…
Short Notices
The Letter of Toledo
Some Jewish Folklore from Jerusalem
Correspondence.
The Legend of Merlin
XXVIII. The Hebrew Version of the “Secretum Secretorum”
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