The 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies

New Light on “The Tale of the Tanna and the Dead Sinner”

Prof. (ret.) Myron Lerner

The lecturer has published a lengthy study on yhr "tale of the Tanna and the dead sinner" [Assupot, 2(1987), pp. 29-70. Further research has revealed some extraordinary conclusions concerning the background of th sinner and the sitz-im-leben of this tale.