God's Sacred Tongue
Subtitle: Hebrew and the American Imagination
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807828359
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Comparative Religion; History of religion; Jewish studies; Judaism; Study and teaching (Higher); History; Religion - Judaism; Religious; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Judaism - History; Jewish/Israeli/Holocaust Studies; Religious Studies; American Studies; Biography; United States; Biography; Hebraists, Christian; Hebrew philology; Old Testament scholars
First sentence: If the first chapters of the Bible tell of the origins of all the peoples of the earth, how does one account for the native peoples of Americas, peoples with no apparent relationship to other known human cultures?