This article proposes a new reading of the opening scene of Joseph Ben Meir Ibn Zabara’s twelfth century (at the latest: 1209) The Book of Delight. This reading derives from the hypothesis that this art of storytelling is based on a poetic principle of uncertainty, and is therefore associated with the various forms of the ambiguous and the ambivalent (the grotesque, the uncanny, the ironic, etc.). As I have argued elsewhere about other rhymed Hebrew stories, this approach is appropriate, in my view, to the character of some of the most fascinating rhymed stories produced in medieval Hebrew literature. In the present study I suggest yet another demonstration of the poetic benefit that can accrue from the adoption of this approach.

本文提出了对约瑟夫·本·迈尔·伊本·扎巴拉（Joseph Ben Meir Ibn Zabara）十二世纪（最晚：1209年）《喜乐之书》（The Book of Delight）开幕场面的重新解读。这种读法源自这样一种假设，即这种叙事艺术是基于不确定性的诗意原理，因此与歧义和矛盾的各种形式（怪诞，怪诞，讽刺等）相关。正如我在其他地方对其他押韵的希伯来语故事所争论的那样，我认为这种方法适合中世纪希伯来语文学作品中一些最令人着迷的押韵故事的特征。在本研究中，我建议采用这种方法还可以证明诗意的好处。