responsa in English

noun

questions and answers, type of Rabbinic literature in the form of letters with questions on Jewish and Halachic issues which are answered by authoritative Rabbis

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1. This mode of complex Antiphony is defined here as steady responsa

2. Many of the cases are responsa, in which the jurist is answering a legal enquiry.

3. Tractatus posthumus Jani Jacobi Boissardi Vesuntini De divinatione & magicis praestigiis : quarum veritas ac vanitas solidè exponitur per descriptionem deorum fatidicorum qui olim responsa dederunt : eorundemque prophetarum, sacerdotum, phoebadum, sybyllarum & divinorum, qui priscis temporibus celebres oraculis exstiterunt ; Adjunctis simul omnium effigiebus, ab ipso autore e gemmis