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A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
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Edited by:
Nadia Vidro
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths 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 articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.
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Nadia Vidro, PhD (2009), is a research associate at the University College London. She has published two monographs and articles on the Karaite grammatical tradition, including A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of
Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2013).
Irene E. Zwiep, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Focusing on intellectual history, her research interests include medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistic thought, Jewish Enlightenment and the early Wissenschaft des Judentums.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew Manuscript Studies, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Her main research interests and publications concern Hebrew palaeography and diplomatics as well as Hebrew grammatical thought, both among Karaites and medieval Christian Hebraists.
Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Brill, 2013).
Irene E. Zwiep, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Focusing on intellectual history, her research interests include medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistic thought, Jewish Enlightenment and the early Wissenschaft des Judentums.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, PhD (1995), holds the chair of Hebrew Manuscript Studies, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Her main research interests and publications concern Hebrew palaeography and diplomatics as well as Hebrew grammatical thought, both among Karaites and medieval Christian Hebraists.
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eBook published on:
June 5, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9789004277052
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256
eBook ISBN:
9789004277052
Keywords for this book
Geniza; Hebraism; translation; Ibn Janāḥ; Ḥayyūj; Karaites; terminology; Kimḥi; pre-modern; logic; morphology; semantics; Yiddish; Latin; Judaeo-Arabic
Audience(s) for this book
All interested in the history of Hebrew linguistics and the transmission of Hebrew grammatical knowledge between the Jewish and the Christian intellectual traditions, those concerned with Bible translations, Hebrew scientific terminology, and Christian Hebraism.
