Keresh
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The Keresh is the enormous deer of Be-Ila'i, and it has but one horn. Some of the Sages of the Talmud identify it as the legendary Taḥash. It is associated with the Tigris, the giant lion of the same wild habitat. Be-Ila'i is a forest of this name according to Rashi, and according to Lewysohn[1]. According to Jastrow it refers to the mountains of interior Asia.[2]
See Babylonian Talmud (Shas), Seder Kodashim, Tractate Chullin, Folio 59b (Chullin 59b).
References
- ↑ Lewysohn, Ludwig (1858) Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 70.
- ↑ See Jastrow, Marcus (1926) Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Bavli and Midrashic Literature p. 520.