The story of Hebrew / Lewis Glinert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glinert, Lewis, author.

Series:

Library of Jewish ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew language--History.

Hebrew language.

History.

Hebrew language--Revival.

Hebrew language--Usage.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book tells two stories: first, how Hebrew has been used in Jewish life, from the Israelites to the ancient Rabbis and across 2,000 years of nurture, abandonment, and renewal, eventually given up by many for dead but improbably rescued to become the everyday language of modern Israel. Second, it tells the story of how Jews-and Christians-have perceived Hebrew, and invested it with a symbolic power far beyond normal language"--ECIP introduction.

ISBN:

9780691153292

0691153299

OCLC:

950004303