The holy tongue & how it changed the course of history
By: Benjamin Gross ; translated from the French,  Alan Clayman
Publisher: Devora Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781934440018
Other titles: Holy tongue and how it changed the course of history
Work titles: Aventure du langage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-303) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What speaking means; title: The application of speech in the biblical world; title: Hellenistic Judaism; title: The literature of the Talmud and the Midrash; title: Medieval Jewish philosophy: holy tongue or the language of holiness; title: Scriptural basis for the holy writings of the monotheistic religions; title: The Kabbala and the mystical doctrine of language; title: The human structure of receiving: language in the thought of R. Loew, the Maharal of Prague; title: The "world of speech" in Hasidic thought; title: Language and theology; title: Judaism as the foundation of a general theory of language: Franz Rosenzweig; title: Religious discourse and the language of ethics: the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas; title: The renaissance of Hebrew and the renewal of Hebraism; title: Afterword: Jewish history as the history of the language of revelation.