Essays about: "Hebrew"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the word Hebrew.

  1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
    Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

    Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE CHOSEN CREATURES: HOW ANIMAL JUXTAPOSITIONS IN ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO INSTITUTIONALIZED OTHERNESS

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Heidi Keller; [2023-07-06]
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    Abstract : This paper discusses how anthropomorphic animals have been used in depicting Jews in antisemitic art and propaganda imagery since the late High Middle Ages until the first half of the 20th century. It sheds light on why certain animal species were chosen to symbolize Jews, and categorizes the animals into three groups: creatures taken from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Jewish folklore inspired by it, animals presented in secular and pagan folklore influenced by legends from Ancient Greece and Rome, and the “anti-charismatic” fauna. READ MORE

  4. 3. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEBRAISMS IN THE SHORT RECENSION OF ENOCH 2

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Inna Ohlsson; [2023-06-26]
    Keywords : Fornkyrkoslaviska; Enoch; Hebraism; apocalyptic; Old Church Slavonic;

    Abstract : It has long been known that Enoch 2, short recension, contains plenty of Hebraisms and many scholars commented on them. The present work is the first systematic study of Hebraisms based on two methods: comparative, where Enoch 2 is compared to Zerubbabel, and corpus linguistical, where AntConc software is used to study the words, which can give rise to a Hebraism. READ MORE

  5. 4. Salkinson’s Pursuit of Bringing the New Testament into the Treasure Houseof Hebrew Literature : The controversy surrounding a Haskalah Hebrew translation of the New Testament

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Semitiska språk: Arabiska, Arameiska/Syriska, Etiopiska, Hebreiska

    Author : Herta Maria Dixon; [2023]
    Keywords : Haskalah Hebrew; NT translations; Meliṣah; Jewish;

    Abstract : This study deals with the surprising commissioning of a new translation into Hebrew of the New Testament only months after the prestigious translation by the celebrated German Hebraist Prof. Franz Delitzsch had been published, in 1877. READ MORE

  6. 5. Abraham's Final Lekh-Lekha : Maimonides and Ibn Kaspi on Disobedience in the Akedah

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Bibelvetenskap

    Author : Leo Saleh; [2023]
    Keywords : Genesis 22; The Binding of Isaac; The Binding; The Akedah; Aqedah; Aqedat; Abraham; Isaac; Maimonides; Rambam; Ibn Kaspi; The Guide of the Perplexed; Moreh Nevukhim; Gevia Kesef; Yoreh Deah; Silver Goblet; Disobedience; Divine command; Rabbinic; Midrash; Hebrew bible; Redaction criticism; Reception theory; Intertextuality; Genesis 22; Isaks Bindande; Akedah; Akedat; Aqedah; Aqedat; Isak; Abraham; Maimonides; Rambam; Ibn Kaspi; The Guide of the Perplexed; Moreh Nevukhim; Gevia Kesef; Yoreh Deah; Silver Goblet; Hebreiska bibeln; Olydnad; Rabbinsk tolkning; Midrash; Redaktionskritik; Receptionshistoria; Intertextualitet;

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