It tells us little about why Monis did what he did, and less about its effects on his students (who were neither accomplished Hebraists nor Jewish historians).

When I try to trace, even in a partial way, the evolution of our first encounters as would-be Yiddishists and Hebraists, sincere and clueless young women, into the rich sediment of overlapping years, sensibilities, passions, words, and abiding admiration and affection, I am reminded of yet another poet--Stanley Kunitz.

Like podcast: Now a popular medium, the terma portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast"left Hebraists scratching their heads.

Driver and culminating with the work of Avi Hurvitz (whose studies have continued into the twenty-first century and indeed to the present day), Hebraists were in general agreement that the Biblical Hebrew (BH) language changed diachronically over the course of the millennium of attested texts.

McDougall never cites the considerable body of recent scholarship on the English Hebraists.

However, unlike many Christian Hebraists, who tended to empty out their kabbalistic sources of any Jewish specificity in order to demonstrate the veracity of Christian dogma, De' Sommi here uses elementary kabbalistic ideas to reinforce Jewish legitimacy.

In some (jovial?) sense Borges is a Christian kabbalist, a latter-day incarnation of Hebraists who used Jewish mysticism in syncretic form to break molds.

(17) Angel SAENZ-BADILLOS, Early Hebraists in Spain: Menahem ben Saruq and Dunash ben Labrat, en Magne SAEBO (ed.), Hebrew Bible Old Testament.

They had the homeland on their tongues and exile in their hearts and minds." Even the Hebraists, Sharon suggests, could not let go of the diaspora.

meticulously chronicles Servet's life, beginning with his early travels to Switzerland, where he met several important Hebraists, and to Strasbourg, where he forged a relationship with the Protestant reformers Capito and Bucer.

of Pennsylvania Press, 2013); Shoulson, Hebraica veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (U.

Although Casaubon's studies of Hebrew may have begun, as they did for many Christian Hebraists, with a belief that the language of the Old Testament offered mystical or magical power, he quickly abandoned such beliefs in favour of a philological approach that had much in common with his approach to Greek or Latin.