«El deśechar el mundo el este es llaves de ‘olam haḅá»: La importancia del diálogo en la versión sefardí del Ben hamélej vehanaźir (Salónica, 1849)
[EN] Throughout the Middle Ages, the story of Buddha‒known in the Christian world as Barlaam and Josaphat‒was introduced to the European literatures by means of numerous versions. The present article deals with the Sephardic version of this literary classic with the title Sefer ben ha-melekh ve-ha-n...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repository: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/379884 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/379884 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Story of Buddha Sefer ben ha-melekh ve-ha-nazir Yitsḥak Bekhor Amarachi Ladino literature Dialogue Salonika Historia de Buda Literatura judeoespañola Género dialógico Salónica Arab literature |
| Summary: | [EN] Throughout the Middle Ages, the story of Buddha‒known in the Christian world as Barlaam and Josaphat‒was introduced to the European literatures by means of numerous versions. The present article deals with the Sephardic version of this literary classic with the title Sefer ben ha-melekh ve-ha-nazir (Salonika, 1849) and was translated from Hebrew to Judeo-Spanish by the Salonikan Rabbi Yitsḥak Bekhor Amarachi, translator and author of several Judeo-Spanish works of moral and didactic content. This contribution is circumscribed to the study of the dialogue within the narrative framework. Illustrative passages of the Judeo-Spanish version have been transcribed from Hebrew Rashi letters to Latin characters and have been edited in order to focus on the study of the dialogue which is a fundamental narrative technique used in the frame story of this work. Through conversations between the protagonists, whose voices move the story along, we become acquainted with the curious story of an idolatrous king and his son who receives a life lesson in a long conversation with a monk starting his spiritual path that leads him to become a sage, to get closer to God and to merit the world to come. |
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