The Nun's Priest and the Hebrew Pointer.

Author / Editor
Cook, James W.

Title
The Nun's Priest and the Hebrew Pointer.

Published
American Notes and Queries 7 (1968): 53-54.

Description
Surmises that, as a satiric response to the anti-Semitism of PrT, NPT may reflect Chaucer's possible knowledge of a twelfth-century "Anglo-Jewish collection of 107 animal fables," the "Mishle Shu' alim," generally attributed to Berechiah Ben Natron ai Krespin Ha-Nakdan, "also called Benedict le Puncteur of Oxford."

Chaucer Subjects
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Prioress and Her Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations