Hebrew between Jews and Christians

Daniel Stein Kokin

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9783111619958
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110389517
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Languages

Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Torah Inscribed/Transcribed in Seventy Languages1 Introduction: The Biblical Base(s)
• “Hebrew, Beloved of God”: The Adamic Language in the Thought of Jacob, Bishop of Edessa (c. 633–708 CE)
• “Lingua sacra et diabolica”: A Survey of Medieval Christian Views of the Hebrew Language
• Aramaic – Between Heaven and Earth: On the Use of Aramaic in the Liturgical Life of Medieval European Jewry
• Choice and Determinism at the Crossroads of Early Modern Hebraism
• Learning Hebrew in the Renaissance: Towards a Typology
• Hebraism without Hebrew: Hartmann Schedel and the Conversion of his “Jewish” Books
• Hebrew Caught Between? Sebastian Münster’s Edition of Elia Levita’s Sefer ha-Baḥur as Evidence of Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue
• Luther and Hebrew
• Hebrew in the Counter-Reformation: The Cases of Caesar Baronius and Gilbert Génébrard
• The Peculiarities of Hungarian Christian Hebraism (16th and 17th Centuries)
• Reasoning and Exegesis: Hamann and Herder’s Notions of Biblical Hebrew
• Dalman als Aramaist: Auf der Suche nach der Sprache der neutestamentlichen Welt
• Apostasy, Identity, and Erudition: Paul Levertoff (1878–1954)
• Metaphors of the Sacred and Profane in Pre-State Zionist Hebrew Discourse