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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hebrew study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda. Edinburgh, Scotland : T&T Clark, 1999 (OCoLC)607356292 |
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| Named Person: | Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; Ezra, (Biblical figure) |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
William Horbury |
| ISBN: | 056708602X 9780567086020 |
| OCLC Number: | 43268469 |
| Description: | xiv, 337 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. The Second Temple period. Hebrew and its study in the Persian period / Joachim Schaper -- Hebrew study in Ben Sira's Beth midrash / J.K. Aitken -- Hebrew and its study at Qumran / Jonathan Campbell -- The ancestral language of the Jews in 2 Maccabees / J.W. van Henten -- pt. 2. Rabbinic and early Christian Hebraists. How did the Rabbis learn Hebrew? / Philip Alexander -- St Jerome and the meaning of the high-priestly vestments / Robert Hayward -- Hebrew and Aramaic in the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila / Lawrence Lahey -- The Hebrew Matthew and Hebrew study / William Horbury -- pt. 3. Rome and Byzantium. "Peace upon Israel" : Hebrew formulae and names in Jewish inscriptions from the Western Roman Empire / David Noy -- A thousand years of Hebrew in Byzantium / N.R.M. de Lange -- pt. 4. The Karaites. The knowledge of Hebrew among early Karaites, and its use in Karaite legal contracts / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- The Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammatical thought / Geoffrey Khan -- Pt. 5. Christian Hebraists in mediaeval and early modern Europe. Alexander Neckam's knowledge of Hebrew / Raphael Loewe -- Christian Hebrew scholarship in quattrocento Florence / Andrew Berquist -- Robert Wakefield (d. 1537) : the father of English Hebraists / Gareth Lloyd Jones -- Some points of interest in sixteenth-century translations of Exodus 15 / G.I. Davies -- The Amsterdam translation of the Mishnah / P.T. van Rooden -- pt. 6. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Samson Raphael Hirsch's use of Hebrew etymology / A.H. Lesser -- A Jewish usurper among Christian Hebraists? -Cambridge, 1866 / S.C. Reif -- Resistance to the study of Hebrew : the experiences of Peretz Smolenskin and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda / G. Mandel -- Hebrew in mandatary Palestine / Edward Ullendorff -- "Hebrew, speak Hebrew" : the place of Hebrew in modern Hebrew literature / Risa Domb. |
| Responsibility: | edited by William Horbury. |
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- Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History.
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- Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, -- 1858-1922.
- Ezra -- (Biblical figure)
- Christian Hebraists.
- Hebraists.
- Hebreeuws.
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