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008 160511s2016 nju b 001 0 eng
010 _a 2016022084
020 _a9780691153292 (hardcover : alk. paper)
042 _apcc
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dMvI
050 0 0 _aPJ4545
_b.G55 2016
082 0 0 _a492.4/09
_223
100 1 _aGlinert, Lewis,
245 1 4 _aThe story of Hebrew /
_cLewis Glinert.
263 _a1704
264 1 _aPrinceton ;
_aOxford :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2016]
300 _apages cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aLibrary of Jewish ideas
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
500 _a"This book tells two stories: first, how Hebrew has been used in Jewish life, from the Israelites to the ancient Rabbis and across 2,000 years of nurture, abandonment, and renewal, eventually given up by many for dead but improbably rescued to become the everyday language of modern Israel. Second, it tells the story of how Jews-and Christians-have perceived Hebrew, and invested it with a symbolic power far beyond normal language"--ECIP introduction.
505 0 _aChapter 1. "Let there be Hebrew" -- Chapter 2. Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome -- Chapter 3. Saving the Bible and its Hebrew -- Chapter 4. The Sephardic classical age -- Chapter 5. The other Medieval Hebrews -- The sciences and the sacred -- Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination I: Medieval designs -- Chapter 6. Hebrew in the Christian imagination, II: From Kabbalists to colonials -- Chapter 7. Can these bones live? Hebrew at the dawn of modernity -- Chapter 8. The Hebrew state.
650 0 _aHebrew language
_xHistory.
650 0 _aHebrew language
_xRevival.
650 0 _aHebrew language
_xUsage.
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