Story of Hebrew.

This book 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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glinert, Lewis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Colección:Library of Jewish ideas.
Temas:
Hebrew language > History.
Hebrew language > Revival.
Hebrew language > Usage.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic.
RELIGION > Judaism > History.
Hebrew language
Hebrew language > Revival
Hebrew language > Usage
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. "Let there be Hebrew"
  • Chapter 2. Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome
  • Chapter 3. Saving the Bible and its Hebrew
  • Chapter 4. The Sephardic classical age
  • Chapter 5. The other Medieval Hebrews
  • The sciences and the sacred
  • Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination I: Medieval designs
  • Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination, II: From Kabbalists to colonials
  • Chapter 7. Can these bones live? Hebrew at the dawn of modernity
  • Chapter 8. The Hebrew state.

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