A Universal art : Hebrew grammar across disciplines and faiths /
This book reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of article...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2014
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| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1 Indigenous Traditions of Hebrew Linguistics; a. Theories and Practices of Linguistic Analysis; The Medieval Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammar; Morphology versus Meaning: Biblical Mixed Roots and Andalusi Hebrew Lexicographical Theories; Whether to Capture Form or Meaning: A Typology of Early Judaeo-Arabic Pentateuch Translations; The Impact of Teytsh on Diqduq, or: Why the Metaphor Became a Noun in Early Modern Ashkenazi Linguistics; b. Development of Hebrew Terminology.
- "With That, You Can Grasp All the Hebrew Language": Hebrew Sources of an Anonymous Hebrew-Latin Grammar from Thirteenth-Century EnglandThe Quest for the Holiest Alphabet in the Renaissance; Index of Names; Index of Places; Index of Works; Index of Terminology.
