Lewis Glinert
Autor/a de Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar
Sobre l'autor
Lewis Glinert is Professor of Hebrew studies at Dartmouth College.
Obres de Lewis Glinert
Pious voices : languages among ultra-Orthodox Jews — Editor — 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Issues in the Acquisition and Teaching of Hebrew (Studies and Texts in Jewish History and Culture) (2009) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Fucus : a Semitic/Afrasian gathering in remembrance of Albert Ehrman (1988) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Relative Clauses and Genitive Constructions in Semitic (Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement 25) (2009) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Glinert, Lewis
- Data de naixement
- 1950-06-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK (birth), USA (resident)
- Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- Oxford University (BA|French and German|1971)
University of London (PhD|Linguistics|1974) - Professions
- Professor of Hebrew
- Organitzacions
- School of Oriental and African Studies
Dartmouth College - Biografia breu
- Married to Joan Glinert.
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Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 363
- Popularitat
- #66,173
- Valoració
- 4.6
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 26
- Llengües
- 1
The Story of Hebrew takes readers from the opening verses of Genesis—which seemingly describe the creation of Hebrew itself—to the reincarnation of Hebrew as the everyday language of the Jewish state. Lewis Glinert explains the uses and meanings of Hebrew in ancient Israel and its role as a medium for wisdom and prayer. He describes the early rabbis' preservation of Hebrew following the Babylonian exile, the challenges posed by Arabic, and the prolific use of Hebrew in Diaspora art, spirituality, and science. Glinert looks at the conflicted relationship Christians had with Hebrew from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation, the language's fatal rivalry with Yiddish, the dreamers and schemers that made modern Hebrew a reality, and how a lost pre-Holocaust textual ethos is being renewed today by Orthodox Jews.
A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant to those possessing it.… (més)