The story of Hebrew

The story of Hebrew / Lewis Glinert.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glinert, Lewis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Series:Library of Jewish ideas.
Subjects:
Hebrew language > History.
Hebrew language > Revival.
Hebrew language > Usage.
History.
Holy Cross Note:Speakers & Fellows Collection
Rehm copy contains dedication and is signed by the author.
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. Medieval Ashkenaz and Italy: sciences, sonnets, and the sacred
  • Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination, I: medieval designs
  • Chapter 7. Hebrew in the Christian imagination, II: from Kabbalists to colonials
  • Chapter 8. Can these bones live? Hebrew at the dawn of modernity
  • Chapter 9. The Hebrew state.

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