Book Description
This book is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day.
Author : Angel Sáenz-Badillos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 1996-01-25
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521556347
This book is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day.
Author : Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476626294
Ben-Yehuda's vision of a modern Hebrew eventually came to animate a large part of the Jewish world, and gave new confidence and pride to Jewish youth during the most difficult period of modern history, infusing Zionism with a dynamic cultural content. This book examines the many changes that occurred in the transition to Modern Hebrew, acquainting new students of the language with its role as a model for other national revivals, and explaining how it overcame many obstacles to become a spoken vernacular. The author deals primarily with the social and political use of the language and does not cover literature. Also discussed are the dilemmas facing the language arising from the fact that Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora "don't speak the same language," while Israeli Arabs and Jews often do.
Author : Joel Hoffman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0814736904
Written in language simple enough for everyone to learn, this sweeping history traces the Hebrew language's development and covers the dramatic story of the rebirth of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
Author : Lewis Glinert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691183090
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.
Author : Jeff A. Benner
Publisher : Virtual Bookworm.Com Pub Incorporated
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781589395343
The Hebrew Bible, called the "Tenach" by Jews and "Old Testament" by Christians, was originally written in the Hebrew language using an ancient pictographic, or paleo-Hebrew, script. Through the study of this ancient language and script the words of the Bible will come alive to the reader in a way never seen before. This book will examine the origins and history of the ancient Hebrew language and script and their close relationship to the culture of the ancient Hebrews. Included are detailed charts of the evolution of the ancient Hebrew script as well as many other related Semitic and non-Semitic scripts. Also included are the details of the root system of the Hebrew language, and a lexicon of ancient Hebrew roots to assist the reader of the Bible with finding the original cultural context for many Hebrew words.
Author : Edward Yechezkel Kutscher
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN :
Author : Joel Hoffman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 27,64 MB
Release : 2004-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0814736548
Written in language simple enough for everyone to learn, this sweeping history traces the Hebrew language's development and covers the dramatic story of the rebirth of Hebrew as a modern, spoken language.
Author : Edward Horowitz
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780881254877
Jewish Education Committee Press.
Author : William M. Schniedewind
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300199104
More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes, and priests who used it. In this unique social history, William Schniedewind examines classical Hebrew from its origins in the second millennium BCE until the Rabbinic period, when the principles of Judaism as we know it today were formulated, to view the story of the Israelites through the lens of their language. Considering classical Hebrew from the standpoint of a writing system as opposed to vernacular speech, Schniedewind demonstrates how the Israelites’ long history of migration, war, exile, and other momentous events is reflected in Hebrew’s linguistic evolution. An excellent addition to the fields of biblical and Middle Eastern studies, this fascinating work brings linguistics and social history together for the first time to explore an ancient culture.
Author : Joseph R. Hacker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081220509X
The rise of printing had major effects on culture and society in the early modern period, and the presence of this new technology—and the relatively rapid embrace of it among early modern Jews—certainly had an effect on many aspects of Jewish culture. One major change that print seems to have brought to the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, particularly in Italy, was greater interaction between Jews and Christians in the production and dissemination of books. Starting in the early sixteenth century, the locus of production for Jewish books in many places in Italy was in Christian-owned print shops, with Jews and Christians collaborating on the editorial and technical processes of book production. As this Jewish-Christian collaboration often took place under conditions of control by Christians (for example, the involvement of Christian typesetters and printers, expurgation and censorship of Hebrew texts, and state control of Hebrew printing), its study opens up an important set of questions about the role that Christians played in shaping Jewish culture. Presenting new research by an international group of scholars, this book represents a step toward a fuller understanding of Jewish book history. Individual essays focus on a range of issues related to the production and dissemination of Hebrew books as well as their audiences. Topics include the activities of scribes and printers, the creation of new types of literature and the transformation of canonical works in the era of print, the external and internal censorship of Hebrew books, and the reading interests of Jews. An introduction summarizes the state of scholarship in the field and offers an overview of the transition from manuscript to print in this period.