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In hagiography (legends of St. Silvester, \"\"Der Judenknabe,\"\" Theophilus, St. Basil) Jews are variously depicted as philosophers, sorcerers, filicides, loving fathers, and righteous physicians. These legends are extensively attested in collections, such as Der Heiligen Leben, and in Latin and German versions of the Legenda Aurea. The medieval fable collections, like the hagiographic anthologies, present a diverse image of Jews. While the Avianus and the Anonymous Neveleti collections contain a group of fables whose epimyths presented Jews as venal, they also contain a fable depicting a Jew as an allegorical figure of the faithful soul. This was preserved when Boner's Edelstein supplanted Latin collections in the late 1300's. \"\"The Parable of the Ring,\"\" found in the Gesta Romanorum and the Decameron, presents Jews as one group of \"\"God's children,\"\" a description also transmitted by Hugo von Trimberg in his Der Renner . 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The medieval fable collections, like the hagiographic anthologies, present a diverse image of Jews. While the Avianus and the Anonymous Neveleti collections contain a group of fables whose epimyths presented Jews as venal, they also contain a fable depicting a Jew as an allegorical figure of the faithful soul. This was preserved when Boner's Edelstein supplanted Latin collections in the late 1300's. ""The Parable of the Ring,"" found in the Gesta Romanorum and the Decameron, presents Jews as one group of ""God's children,"" a description also transmitted by Hugo von Trimberg in his Der Renner . 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