Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew
Subtitle: A Linguistic Journey from Eden to Israel
Publisher: Mosaica Press
Published: 2015
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781937887544
Description: This edition offers corrections and additions to the first edition, plus a separate biographical index for sources cited in those additions.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments 15; title: Introduction 21; label: Chapter 1
title: The Language of Adam
pagenum: 25; label: Chapter 2
title: The Tower of Babel
pagenum: 41; label: Chapter 3
title: Abraham the Hebrew
pagenum: 58; label: Chapter 4
title: The Jews in Egypt
pagenum: 86; label: Chapter 5
title: Replacing Lashon HaKodesh
pagenum: 102; label: Chapter 6
title: The Language Wars
pagenum: 131; label: Chapter 7
title: Foreign Influences on Lashon HaKodesh
pagenum: 156; label: Chapter 8
title: Development of Aramaic
pagenum: 175; label: Appendices:
title: 187; label: Appendix A
title: The Scripts of Lashon HaKodesh
pagenum: 187; label: Appendix B
title: Egyptian Names in the Bible
pagenum: 208; label: Appendix C
title: Prayers in Aramaic
pagenum: 220; label: Appendix D
title: Maharal on Aramaic and Lashon HaKodesh
pagenum: 234; label: Postscript
title: 242; label: Biographical Index
title: 245; label: Additions and Corrections
title: 292