Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "A Mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory, called a nimshal. \"Mashal\" is used also to designate other forms in rhetoric, such as the fable and apothegm. Talmudist Daniel Boyarin has recently defined משל as a process of \"exemplification,\" seeing it as the sine qua non of Talmudic hermeneutics (Boyarin 2003: 93). He quotes Song of Songs Rabba: \"until Solomon invented the משל, no one could understand Torah at all.\" The phenomenon has been compared to the more recent phenomenon of sampling in modern popular music, especially hip-hop (Levy 2010)."@en }
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- Mashal_(allegory) abstract "A Mashal (Hebrew: משל) is a short parable with a moral lesson or religious allegory, called a nimshal. \"Mashal\" is used also to designate other forms in rhetoric, such as the fable and apothegm. Talmudist Daniel Boyarin has recently defined משל as a process of \"exemplification,\" seeing it as the sine qua non of Talmudic hermeneutics (Boyarin 2003: 93). He quotes Song of Songs Rabba: \"until Solomon invented the משל, no one could understand Torah at all.\" The phenomenon has been compared to the more recent phenomenon of sampling in modern popular music, especially hip-hop (Levy 2010).".