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Study Of The Hebrew Language
As the Old Testament (known as the Tanakh) was written in Hebrew, Hebrew has been central to Judaism and Christianity for more than 2000 years. Jewish scholars of Hebrew The study of Hebrew occurred already in some grammatical notes in the Talmud and Midrash. The Masoretes continued the study as they fixed the text and vocalization of the Hebrew Bible. Under the influence of Arab grammarians, Rabbi Saadia Gaon (tenth century) made the Jewish study of Hebrew grammar almost scientific. Later Jewish grammarians include David Qimhi (known as the Radak), Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah ben David Hayyuj. Eliezer Ben-Yehuda is the main revivalist of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, although in his book ''Language in Time of Revolution'', Israeli scholar Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role and attributes the success of the revival to a wider movement in the Jewish society. Non-Jewish scholars of Hebrew The first major non-Jewish grammarian was John Reuchlin (16th century), but i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;"Tanach" . '' Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; ; or ), also known in Hebrew as (; ), is the canonical collection of scriptures, comprising the Torah (the five Books of Moses), the Nevi'im (the Books of the Prophets), and the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Emil Kautzsch
Emil Friedrich Kautzsch (4 September 1841 – 7 May 1910) was a German Hebrew scholar and biblical critic, born at Plauen, Saxony. Biography He was educated at Leipzig, in whose theological faculty he was appointed privatdozent (1869) and professor (1871). Subsequently he held chairs at Basel (1872–80), where he received an honorary Swiss citizenship and made friends with Friedrich Nietzsche, after which he moved to Tübingen (1880–88) until receiving a professorship at Halle in 1888. Kautzsch traveled to Ottoman Palestine in 1876, and became one of the founding members of the "German Society for the Exploration of Palestine" (Deutscher Palästina-Verein) the following year. He was also one of the editors of the '' Theologische Studien und Kritiken'', beginning in 1888. Published works Kautzsch edited the following works: * The 8th edition of Hermann Scholz's ''Abriss der Hebräischen Laut- und Formenlehre'', (1899). * The 10th and 11th editions of Hagenbach's ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Ze'ev Ben-Haim
Ze'ev Wolf Goldman, later known as Ze'ev Ben-Haim or Ze'ev Ben-Hayyim (; 28 December 1907 – 6 August 2013), was a leading Israeli linguist and a former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Biography Ben-Haim was born in Mościska, Galicia, then part of Austria-Hungary and now in Ukraine). Schooled in his youth by private tutors and later completing high school at a gymnasium, where he studied classical languages, he left Galicia to study on a scholarship at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and, in parallel, he studied at the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, where he received a doctorate in Semitic linguistics. He spent a year in Mandate Palestine in 1931, studying at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He presented his work for his doctorate in 1932 on the subject of personal names in Nabataean epigraphy. In 1933, he received Semikhah (traditional rabbinical ordination) from the Jewish Theological Semi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Joshua Blau
Yehoshua Blau, also spelled Joshua (; 22 September 1919 – 20 October 2020) was an Israeli scholar of Arabic language and literature, previously Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Life and career Blau was born in Cluj, Romania in September 1919. He moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1938. He earned a master's degree in Hebrew, Arabic, and Biblical studies in 1942. He married Shulamit in 1945, and they had a son and daughter. His doctoral studies were interrupted by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, during which he served in the Israel Defense Forces in an intelligence unit. He was awarded a PhD in 1950 for his dissertation, "The Grammar of Judeo-Arabic." Prior to his academic career, he taught at high schools and published several Hebrew grammars. He briefly taught at Tel Aviv University before taking an academic position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he taught from 1957 to 1986. Even after his retirement, he remained a professor emeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Shelomo Morag
Shlomo Morag, also spelled Shelomo Morag (; July 17, 1926 – September 4, 1999), was an Israeli professor at the department of Hebrew Language at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Morag founded the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center at the Hebrew University and served as the head of Ben Zvi Institute for the study of Jewish communities in the East for several years. He was a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. Family Morag was born in Petah Tikva, in Mandate Palestine in 1926. Both his parents were teachers at Netzah Israel religious school in Petah Tikva. The family later moved to Ramat Gan, where Morag grew up and his younger brother Amotz was born. Shlomo Morag's father, Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Mirkin, wrote an 11 volume commentary of Genesis Rabbah. Morag's mother, Sarah Mirkin (née Margalit) founded charitable organizations for the benefit of children and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Chaim Menachem Rabin
Chaim Menachem Rabin (; 1915–1996) was a German, then British, and finally Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages. Chaim Rabin was born in Giessen, Germany, 22 November 1915, the son of Israel and Martel Rabin. Having completed his school studies in April 1933 he spent the year 1933–1934 in Palestine, studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Utz Maas: ''Verfolgung und Auswanderung deutschsprachiger Sprachforscher 1933-1945.'entry for Chaim Rabin/ref> He then emigrated to England, where he eventually became a British citizen. He enrolled as a student at the School of Oriental Studies of the University of London where he received his BA degree in 1937. In 1939 he was awarded his PhD with a thesis entitled ''Studies in Early Arabic Dialects'' at the now renamed School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where from 1938 was employed as a lecturer. On the outbreak of the war he was briefly interned on the Isle of Man, but was soon released. In 1941 he moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai
Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai (; born 13 November 1886 – 17 October 1973) was a Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language. Tur-Sinai was the first president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language and founder of its Historical Dictionary Project.The Academy of the Hebrew Language, Biography Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai was born Harry Torczyner in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (later Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) in 1886. He moved to Vienna, Austria, and then to Berlin, Germany in 1919 to be a lecturer at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (College for Jewish Studies) in Berlin. He was in Palestine from 1910–1912 and participated in founding Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem and Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He settled in Mandatory Palestine in 1933. He was professor of Semitic languages at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Israeli-occupied territories, It occupies the Occupied Palestinian territories, Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Status of Jerusalem, Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's Gush Dan, largest urban area and Economy of Israel, economic center. Israel is located in a region known as the Land of Israel, synonymous with the Palestine (region), Palestine region, the Holy Land, and Canaan. In antiquity, it was home to the Canaanite civilisation followed by the History of ancient Israel and Judah, kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Situate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Hans Bauer (semitist)
Hans Bauer (16 January 1878 – 3 June 1937) was a German semitist and professor at the University of Halle in the early 1930s. He was involved in the decipherment of Ugaritic cuneiform on clay tablets discovered in Ras Shamra, Ugarit Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its height it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Latakia Governorate. It was discovered by accident in 19 ....Allan D. Corré, ''Anatomy of a Decipherment'', University of Wisconsin–Milwauke References Further reading * Holger Gzella: "Hans Bauer und die historisch-vergleichende Semitistik," in: Otto Jastrow et al. (eds.), ''Studien zur Semitistik und Arabistik. Festschrift für Hartmut Bobzin zum 60. Geburtstag.'' Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2008, pp. 141–182. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauer, Hans German scholars Semiticists 1878 births 1937 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Gotthelf Bergsträsser
Gotthelf Bergsträsser (5 April 1886, in Oberlosa, Plauen – 16 August 1933, near Berchtesgaden) was a German linguist specializing in Semitic studies, generally considered to be one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Bergsträsser was initially a teacher of classical languages before deciding to approach Semitic. He was a professor at Istanbul University during World War I, when he was an officer in the German army stationed in Turkey. While there, he studied the spoken dialects of Arabic and Aramaic in Syria and Palestine. One of his most well-known works is the 29th (and final) edition of Wilhelm Gesenius' ''Hebrew Grammar'' (1918–1929), which remained incomplete, containing only phonology and morphology of the verb. Also widely admired was his ''Introduction to the Semitic Languages'' (1928, English 1983). These brought him international fame as a scholar. His last position was professor of Semitic languages at the University of Munich. Bergsträsser mostly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Takamitsu Muraoka
is a Japanese Semiticist. He was Chair of Hebrew, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University in the Netherlands from 1991 to 2003 and is most notable for his studies of Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics and the ancient translations of the Bible, notably of the Septuagint. Education After studying general linguistics and biblical languages under the late Prof. at Tokyo University of Education (now University of Tsukuba), he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, completing his dissertation ''Emphasis in Biblical Hebrew'' with the late Prof. C. Rabin as supervisor, and obtaining his Ph.D. in 1970. Career He taught Semitic languages including Modern Hebrew as Lecturer in Manchester University, U.K. (1970–80), as Professor of Middle Eastern studies at Melbourne University (1980–91), Australia, then moved in 1991 to Leiden University (1991-2003), The Netherlands, as Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature, the Israelite Antiquities, and the Ugaritic la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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Paul Joüon
Paul Joüon (6 February 1871 – 18 February 1940 in Nantes) was a French Jesuit priest, hebraist, Semitic language specialist and member of the Pontifical Biblical Institute. Author of a philological and exegetical commentary on the Book of Ruth (1924), he also wrote ''A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew'' for which he received the Volney Prize from the Institute of France. First published in 1923, Joüon's grammar, enjoying numerous editions as well as an English translation, continues to serve as an important reference to this day. Joüon was the student of French rabbi and orientalist Mayer Lambert. Publications * ''Le Cantique des Cantiques'', Commentaire philologique et exégétique, Éditeur G.Beauchesne, 1909, Paris. * ''Grammaire de l'hébreu biblique'', 624 pages, Éditrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, (première édition 1923, deuxième édition corrigée 1965, réimpressions en 1987, 1996, et 2007), Rome * ''Ruth. Commentaire philologique et exégétique'', Institut Biblique ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |