ISBN:
9781402062018
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (331 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought, v. 12 v.12
Parallel Title:
Print version Studies in Hebrew Language and Jewish Culture : Presented to Albert Van Der Heide on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday
DDC:
305.8924
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The articles presented here include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, early Hebrew-Greek glossary, Hebrew manuscripts, Medieval and Modern Hebrew literature, Medieval and Early-Modern interpretation of Scripture, Medieval and Early-Modern Jewish philosophy, Hebrew book print in the 18th century, and Jewish Enlightenment. The articles cover a substantial part of the fields included in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Matter; Abraham ibn Ezra and the Twelfth-Century European Renaissance; New Catalogues for Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts?; An Early Hebrew-Greek Bible Glossary from the Cairo Genizah and its Significance for the Study of Jewish Bible Translations into Greek; A Jewish Childbirth Amulet for a Girl; The Riddle of the Baskets of 1726; Laments at the Departure of a Sage; The Treatise on the Patriarch Henoch by Johannes Drusius (1550-1616); Unusual Verbal Forms in the Book of Proverbs and Semantic Disambiguation; First Things First; The Targumic Versions of the Martyrdom of Isaiah
Description / Table of Contents:
'The Emperor of Poets'Philosophy and Kabbalah in the Eighteenth Century; Buildings in the Love Poems by Yehuda Amichai; A Note about Two Newly-Discovered Hebrew Quotations of Averroes' Works Lost in their Original Arabic Texts; The Site of Adam's Tomb; From Perush to Be'ur; Love of One's Neighbour in Pinhas Hurwitz's Sefer ha-Berit; The Value of Julius Guttmann's Die Philosophie des Judentums for Understanding Medieval Jewish Philosophy Today; Moses Mendelssohn's Conception of Judaism;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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