A social history of Hebrew : its origins through the Rabbinic period /
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.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2013]
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| Series: | Anchor Yale Bible reference library.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vm6sc |
Table of Contents:
- Language, land, and people: toward the history of classical Hebrew
- The origins of Hebrew: in search of the holy tongue
- Early Hebrew writing
- Linguistic nationalism and the emergence of Hebrew
- The democratization of Hebrew
- Hebrew in exile
- Hebrew under imperialism
- Hebrew in the Hellenistic world
- The end and the beginning of Hebrew.