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This paper starts from the well known fact that the spherical functions of the Poincaré half-plane can be expressed by the classical Legendre functions. Since Hermitian symmetric tube domains are very natural generalizations of the Poincaré half-plane, it is also natural to consider generalizing the above fact to such domains. Since Jordan theory has been used quite effectively to describe Hermitian symmetric domains and many of their properties, it is also natural to try carrying out the above program via Jordan theory. This is what this paper achieves, namely to express the spherical functions of Hermitian symmetric tube domains in terms of generalized Legendre functions via Jordan theory.