The Story of Hebrew

Lewis Glinert (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18309-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Lewis Glinert is professor of Hebrew studies at Dartmouth College.

List of Figures ix

Introduction 1

1 "Let There Be Hebrew" 8

2 Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome 22

3 Saving the Bible and Its Hebrew 59

4 The Sephardic Classical Age 74

5 Medieval Ashkenaz and Italy:
Sciences, Sonnets, and the Sacred 102

6 Hebrew in the Christian Imagination, I: Medieval Designs 124

7 Hebrew in the Christian Imagination, II: From Kabbalists to Colonials 139

8 Can These Bones Live? Hebrew at the Dawn of Modernity 168

9 The Hebrew State 212

Epilogue 246

Acknowledgments 251

Notes 253

Further Reading 261

Index 265

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Library of Jewish Ideas
Zusatzinfo	34 b/w illus., 2 tables
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-691-18309-0 / 0691183090
ISBN-13	978-0-691-18309-1 / 9780691183091
Zustand	Neuware