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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press
2017.
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| Series: | Library of Jewish ideas.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77b8x |
Table of Contents:
- 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.