Aramaic – Between Heaven and Earth: On the Use of Aramaic in the Liturgical Life of Medieval European Jewry

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The Torah Inscribed/Transcribed in Seventy Languages 21
5. “Hebrew, Beloved of God”: The Adamic Language in the Thought of Jacob, Bishop of Edessa (c. 633–708 CE) 49
6. “Lingua sacra et diabolica”: A Survey of Medieval Christian Views of the Hebrew Language 67
7. Aramaic – Between Heaven and Earth: On the Use of Aramaic in the Liturgical Life of Medieval European Jewry 95
8. Choice and Determinism at the Crossroads of Early Modern Hebraism 125
9. Learning Hebrew in the Renaissance: Towards a Typology 137
10. Hebraism without Hebrew: Hartmann Schedel and the Conversion of his “Jewish” Books 159
11. Hebrew Caught Between? 187
12. Luther and Hebrew 203
13. Hebrew in the Counter-Reformation: The Cases of Caesar Baronius and Gilbert Génébrard 219
14. The Peculiarities of Hungarian Christian Hebraism (16th and 17th Centuries) 243
15. Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew 275
16. Dalman als Aramaist: Auf der Suche nach der Sprache der neutestamentlichen Welt 297
17. Apostasy, Identity, and Erudition: Paul Levertoff (1878–1954) 319
18. Metaphors of the Sacred and Profane in Pre-State Zionist Hebrew Discourse 337
19. List of Contributors 357