Hebrew study from Ezra to Ben-Yehuda
By: edited by William Horbury.
Contributors: Horbury, William.
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Edinburgh, Scotland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 1858-1922; Ezra (Biblical figure); Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History; Hebrew language -- History; Hebraists, Christian; Hebraists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The Second Temple period.  Hebrew and its study in the Persian period / Joachim Schaper; title: Hebrew study in Ben Sira's Beth midrash / J.K. Aitken; title: Hebrew and its study at Qumran / Jonathan Campbell; title: The ancestral language of the Jews in 2 Maccabees / J.W. van Henten; title: pt. 2. Rabbinic and early Christian Hebraists.  How did the Rabbis learn Hebrew? / Philip Alexander; title: St Jerome and the meaning of the high-priestly vestments / Robert Hayward; title: Hebrew and Aramaic in the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila / Lawrence Lahey; title: The Hebrew Matthew and Hebrew study / William Horbury; title: pt. 3. Rome and Byzantium.  "Peace upon Israel" : Hebrew formulae and names in Jewish inscriptions from the Western Roman Empire / David Noy; title: A thousand years of Hebrew in Byzantium / N.R.M. de Lange; title: pt. 4. The Karaites.  The knowledge of Hebrew among early Karaites, and its use in Karaite legal contracts / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger; title: The Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammatical thought / Geoffrey Khan; title: pt. 5. Christian Hebraists in mediaeval and early modern Europe.  Alexander Neckam's knowledge of Hebrew / Raphael Loewe; title: Christian Hebrew scholarship in quattrocento Florence / Andrew Berquist; title: Robert Wakefield (d. 1537) : the father of English Hebraists / Gareth Lloyd Jones; title: Some points of interest in sixteenth-century translations of Exodus 15 / G.I. Davies; title: The Amsterdam translation of the Mishnah / P.T. van Rooden; title: pt. 6. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Samson Raphael Hirsch's use of Hebrew etymology / A.H. Lesser; title: A Jewish usurper among Christian Hebraists? -Cambridge, 1866 / S.C. Reif; title: Resistance to the study of Hebrew : the experiences of Peretz Smolenskin and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda / G. Mandel; title: Hebrew in mandatary Palestine / Edward Ullendorff; title: "Hebrew, speak Hebrew" : the place of Hebrew in modern Hebrew literature / Risa Domb.