Historical Continuity In The Emergence Of Modern Hebrew

Author : Yael Reshef
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498584500

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Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew by Yael Reshef Pdf

Historical Continuity in the Emergence of Modern Hebrew offers a new perspective on the emergence processes of Modern Hebrew and its relationship to earlier forms of Hebrew. Based on a textual examination of select case studies of language use throughout the modernization of Hebrew, this book shows that due to the unconventional sociolinguistic circumstances in the budding speech community, linguistic processes did not necessarily evolve in a linear manner, blurring the distinction between true and apparent historical continuity. The emergent language’s standardization involved the restructuring of linguistic habits that had initially taken root among the first speakers, often leading to a retreat from early contact-induced or non-classical phenomena. Yael Reshef demonstrates that as a result, superficial similarity to earlier forms of Hebrew did not necessarily stem from continuity, and deviation from canonical Hebrew features does not necessarily stem from change.

Author : Edit Doron,Malka Rappaport Hovav,Yael Reshef,Moshe Taube
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262431

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Language Contact, Continuity and Change in the Genesis of Modern Hebrew by Edit Doron,Malka Rappaport Hovav,Yael Reshef,Moshe Taube Pdf

The emergence of Modern Hebrew as a spoken language constitutes a unique event in modern history: a language which for generations only existed in the written mode underwent a process popularly called “revival”, acquiring native speakers and becoming a language spoken for everyday use. Despite the attention it has drawn, this particular case of language-shift, which differs from the better-documented cases of creoles and mixed languages, has not been discussed within the framework of the literature on contact-induced change. The linguistic properties of the process have not been systematically studied, and the status of the emergent language as a (dis)continuous stage of its historical sources has not been evaluated in the context of other known cases of language shift. The present collection presents detailed case studies of the syntactic evolution of Modern Hebrew, alongside general theoretical discussion, with the aim of bringing the case of Hebrew to the attention of language-contact scholars, while bringing the insights of the literature on language contact to help shed light on the case of Hebrew.

Author : Ruth A. Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262066

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Usage-Based Studies in Modern Hebrew by Ruth A. Berman Pdf

The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.

Author : Dan Miron
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804775021

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From Continuity to Contiguity by Dan Miron Pdf

Dan Miron—widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures—begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.

Author : Shmuel Feiner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909821323

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Haskalah and History by Shmuel Feiner Pdf

‘This impressive study will doubtless come to be considered one of the definitive works in the intellectual history of the Jewish Enlightenment . . . The outstanding nature of this work, its conceptual clarity, and its penetrating analysis make it an exceptional piece of historical research.’ From the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize citation

Author : Norman Berdichevsky
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476626291

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Modern Hebrew by Norman Berdichevsky Pdf

Ben-Yehuda's vision of a modern Hebrew eventually came to animate a large part of the Jewish world, and gave new confidence and pride to Jewish youth during the most difficult period of modern history, infusing Zionism with a dynamic cultural content. This book examines the many changes that occurred in the transition to Modern Hebrew, acquainting new students of the language with its role as a model for other national revivals, and explaining how it overcame many obstacles to become a spoken vernacular. The author deals primarily with the social and political use of the language and does not cover literature. Also discussed are the dilemmas facing the language arising from the fact that Israelis and Jews in the Diaspora "don't speak the same language," while Israeli Arabs and Jews often do.

Author : Sabine Dievenkorn,Shaul Levin
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783732907892

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[Re]Gained in Translation I by Sabine Dievenkorn,Shaul Levin Pdf

Translations of the Bible take place in the midst of tension between politics, ideology and power. With the theological authority of the book as God’s Word, not focusing on the process of translating is stating the obvious. Inclinations, fluency and zeitgeist play as serious a role as translators’ person, faith and worldview, as do their vocabulary, poetics and linguistic capacity. History has seen countless retranslations of the Bible. What are the considerations according to which Biblical retranslations are being produced in current, 21st century, contexts? From retranslations of the Hebrew Bible to those of the Old and New Testaments, to mutual influences of Christian and Jewish translational traditions – the papers collected here all deal with the question of what is to be [re]gained with the production of a new translation where, at times, many a previous one has already existed.

Author : Sabine Dievenkorn,Shaul Levin
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783732991747

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[Re]Gained in Translation, Volume 1–2 by Sabine Dievenkorn,Shaul Levin Pdf

Volume 1: Translations of the Bible take place in the midst of tension between politics, ideology and power. With the theological authority of the book as God’s Word, not focusing on the process of translating is stating the obvious. Inclinations, fluency and zeitgeist play as serious a role as translators’ person, faith and worldview, as do their vocabulary, poetics and linguistic capacity. History has seen countless retranslations of the Bible. What are the considerations according to which Biblical retranslations are being produced in current, 21st century, contexts? From retranslations of the Hebrew Bible to those of the Old and New Testaments, to mutual influences of Christian and Jewish translational traditions – the papers collected here all deal with the question of what is to be [re]gained with the production of a new translation where, at times, many a previous one has already existed. Volume 2: Times are changing, and with them, the norms and notions of correctness. Despite a wide-spread belief that the Bible, as a “sacred original,” only allows one translation, if any, new translations are constantly produced and published for all kinds of audiences and purposes. The various paradigms marked by the theological, political, and historical correctness of the time, group, and identity and bound to certain ethics and axiomatic norms are reflected in almost every current translation project. Like its predecessor, the current volume brings together scholars working at the intersection of Translation Studies, Bible Studies, and Theology, all of which share a special point of interest concerning the status of the Scriptures as texts fundamentally based on the act of translation and its recurring character. It aims to breathe new life into Bible translation studies, unlock new perspectives and vistas of the field, and present a bigger picture of how Bible [re]translation works in society today.

Author : Edward Strachey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368838225

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Jewish History and Politics by Edward Strachey Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Yael Zerubavel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226981576

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Recovered Roots by Yael Zerubavel Pdf

In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth.

Author : Paul Wexler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Hebrew language
ISBN : 3447030631

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The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew by Paul Wexler Pdf

Hebrew is regarded as a former living language which ceased to be a native language 1800 years ago, only to be given a spoken function anew in the late 19th century. Since the re-acquisition of a lost colloquial function has never been documented, Modern Hebrew has become an object of fascination among linguists and laymen alike.In this book the author claims- Modern Hebrew is not a direct continuation of monolingual Semitic Hebrew- Modern Hebrew was created when Yiddish speaker re-lexified their language to Biblical and Mishnaic Hebrew- Yiddish is a Slavic language, derived from Sorbian and thus, Modern Hebrew is a Slavic LanguageThese claims raise a number of interesting questions: why do most speakers believe that Modern Hebrew is a Semitic language, what are the contributions of Modern Hebrew to the typology of diglossia, historical and genetic linguistics, universal grammar, 2nd language acquisition and political science?

Author : Sir Edward Strachey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Bible
ISBN : WISC:89088285671

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Jewish History and Politics in the Times of Sargon and Sennacherib by Sir Edward Strachey Pdf

Author : Eberhard Bons,Jan Joosten,Regine Hunziker-Rodewald
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110383119

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Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek by Eberhard Bons,Jan Joosten,Regine Hunziker-Rodewald Pdf

Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts.

Author : Lodi Nauta
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042917571

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Language and Cultural Change by Lodi Nauta Pdf

It is common wisdom that language is culturally embedded. Cultural change is often accompanied by a change in idiom, in language or in ideas about language. No period serves as a better example of the formative influence of language on culture than the Renaissance. With the advent of humanism new modes of speaking and writing arose. But not only did classical Latin become the paradigm of clear and elegant writing, it also gave rise to new ideas about language and the teaching of it. Some scholars have argued that the cultural paradigm shift from scholasticism to humanism was causally determined by the rediscovery, study and emulation of the classical language, for learning a new language opens up new possibilities for exploring and describing one's perceptions, thoughts and beliefs. However, the vernacular traditions too rose to prominence and vied with Latin for cultural prestige. This volume, number XXIV in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers the papers presented at a workshop on language and cultural change held in Groningen in February 2004. Ten specialists explore the multifarious ways in which language contributed to the shaping of Renaissance culture. They discuss themes such as the relationship between medieval and classical Latin, between Latin and the vernacular, between humanist and scholastic conceptions of language and grammar, translation from Latin into the vernacular, Jewish ideas about different kinds of Hebrew, and shifting ideas on the power and limits of language in the articulation of truth and divine wisdom. There are essays on major thinkers such as Nicholas of Cusa and Leonardo Bruni, but also on less well-known figures and texts. The volume as a whole hopes to contribute to a deeper understanding of the highly complex interplay between language and culture in the transition period between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : William Stubbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UIUC:30112082405272

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Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History by William Stubbs Pdf