Story of Hebrew (eBook)

Lewis Glinert (Autor)

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2017
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8478-0 (ISBN)

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Lewis Glinert is Professor of Hebrew Studies at Dartmouth College, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Linguistics. His books include The Grammar of Modern Hebrew and The Joys of Hebrew.

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A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish stateThis 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 of the most intense textual cultures ever known. It was a bridge to Greek and Arab science. 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.The Story of Hebrew takes readers from the opening verses of Genesis-which seemingly describe the creation of Hebrew itself-to the reincarnation of Hebrew as the everyday language of the Jewish state. Lewis Glinert explains the uses and meanings of Hebrew in ancient Israel and its role as a medium for wisdom and prayer. He describes the early rabbis' preservation of Hebrew following the Babylonian exile, the challenges posed by Arabic, and the prolific use of Hebrew in Diaspora art, spirituality, and science. Glinert looks at the conflicted relationship Christians had with Hebrew from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation, the language's fatal rivalry with Yiddish, the dreamers and schemers that made modern Hebrew a reality, and how a lost pre-Holocaust textual ethos is being renewed today by Orthodox Jews.A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant to those possessing it.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Library of Jewish Ideas
• Reihe/Serie: Library of Jewish Ideas
• Zusatzinfo: 34 line illus. 2 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Bible • bible translations • Biblical Hebrew • Christendom • Christian • Christian Hebraist • Christianity • Church Fathers • collegiality • Consonant • Dartmouth College • Dell Hymes • Dovid Katz • erudition • executive director • Exegesis • Gematria • George Mandel • grammar • Gratitude • Haredi Judaism • Haskalah • Hebraism • Hebrew Alphabet • Hebrew Bible • Hebrew language • Hebrew literature • Hebrew name • Hebrews • high holy days • Howard Giles • Israel • Israel Bartal • Israelis • israelites • Itamar Even-Zohar • Jerusalem • Jewish Culture • Jewish Education • Jewish History • Jewish Identity • Jewish Languages • Jewish prayer • Jews • Joseph Dan • Joshua Fishman • Judaism • Judea • Judea (Roman province) • Kabbalah • Kathryn Woolard • Land of Israel • Literature • Maimonides • Manuscript • Masoretes • Masoretic Text • medieval Hebrew • Michael Halliday • Middle East • Midrash • Mishnah • modern Hebrew • narrative • Neal Kozodoy • New Testament • Old Testament • Poetry • Princeton University Press • Project • Pronunciation • Prose • Psalms • Rabbi • rabbinic literature • Rashi • Religion • religious text • Revival of the Hebrew language • rhetoric • Roger Hertog • Secularism • Sefer (Hebrew) • Sephardi Jews • Shaul Stampfer • Sociology of Language • Talmud • Tanakh • Tefillin • Theology • Torah • Torah study • To this Day • vocabulary • vowel • World War II • Writing • Yemenite Jews • Yiddish • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8478-0 / 1400884780
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8478-0 / 9781400884780