Hebrew Language

Ramat-Gan Prize for Hokhmat Yisrael, 1981

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic was the language spoken and written by Jews in parts of what are now Iraq and Iran from the third to the tenth centuries C.E., corresponding to the Talmudic and Geonic Periods.

This book offers an exhaustive study of this intriguing synthesis between the rules of Hebrew grammar, agreed upon and arranged in the early scriptures, and the logical and philosophical assumptions created mainly in Greek thought.

This compilation deals with religious works written in the span of 1,000 years by sages of Fez and other Moroccan communities about language, religious poetry and literature, interpretation and thought, established halacha and local regulations.

This book includes articles on Rashi and his disciples that expand on the study of Rashi – questions of interpretation, thought, law, language, poetry and history associated with the works of Rashi and his disciples.

The scientific article is a subject of great importance to the discourse community. The ability to write an excellent scientific article is the key to success for the scientist-scholar. His advancement and status are almost totally dependent on his abilit

. Shimon Sharvit, Professor Emeritus at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language, is an outstanding scholars of all aspects of mishnaic Hebrew: pronunciation, morphology, syntax and semantics, vocalization systems and ling

This book focuses on A Comedy of Betrothal (Tzahut Bedihuta DeQiddushin), the earliest known Hebrew play. The study of this Renaissance comedy, dated to the mid-16th century, and attributed to Leone de' Sommi (Yehudah Sommo), a multi-talented Jewish theat

A collection of interdisciplinary studies on the Jews of Tunisia. The 22 articles by foremost scholars from Israel and from abroad encompass a wide variety of fields such as: rabbinic literature, history of Tunisian Jewry throughout the ages, community li

The educated Jew in the Middle Ages became familiar with classical literature through its Arabic translations. Hundreds of motifs were borrowed from these sources and implanted in Hebrew literature, especially in Spanish poetry. The author has collected t

Collection of articles by distinguished scholars, among them friends and students of Prof. Mirsky. Besides the central subject, which is the poetry and liturgy of different communities, periods and styles, included also are studies on biblical exegesis an

This is the first modern Hebrew dictionary to the Hebrew Bible. A previous edition published 20 years ago comprised 3 volumes (alef-tet).

It is widely recognized that poetical and theological texts are by nature paradoxical. This book is a first attempt to explore the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic literature from this point of view. It includes a discussion of the typical antinomies charact

Collection of articles by renowned scholars in Israel and abroad, dealing with social, economic and intellectual history, Bible exegesis and translation, philosophy and polemics, literature and linguistics. Based on lectures delivered at the Sixth Interna

Thirty-two articles by prominent Israeli scholars examine different aspects of the Hebrew language from ancient to modern times.

Selected chapters from the field of post-biblical Hebrew linguistics and lexicography, with particular attention to the language of the Responsa against the background of the biblical text.

A new approach to introducing the verb in the dictionary while presenting its syntactic and semantic environments. Numerous entries are illustrated by English and German equivalents.

Selected chapters from the field of post-biblical Hebrew linguistics and lexicography, with particular attention to the language of the Responsa against the background of the biblical text.

Articles on subjects of interest to Prof. Ratzaby in the fields of poetry and Piyyut, Yemenite Jewry, Sa'adia Gaon, Hebrew Language and Hebrew Literature. The book represents the latest discoveries by leading scholars in each of these areas and other subj

Collection of studies by renowned scholars on linguistic problems in Mishnaic Hebrew.

In compiling this unique dictionary, Prof. Ratzaby has methodically and minutely examined the Arabic language used by R. Sa'adya Gaon in his translation of the Bible and in his commentaries. Words of exceptional form or meaning, not included in the cl

Based on current linguistic approaches, an empirical study was conducted to demonstrate the discrepancies between normative grammar, as taught in schools, and actual pronunciation in the verb system. Gaps were attributed to sociolinguistic variables, such

An examination of the styles of classic writings in modern Hebrew literature, foremost among which are the stories of S.Y. Agnon. These stories are examined from the points of view of the new linguistics, utilizing their methods to describe literary style

A new linguistic methodology applied to the ''Book of Books'': Verbal complements in the biblical Hebrew sentence are dealt with in a transformational approach. A detailed description of the frequently appearing verb 'N-t-N' is offered, showing the correl

The original edition of this important Aramaic text dating to the late second century B.C.E. appeared in 1971. In this book a new edition of the text based on a re-reading of the photographs is presented along with an English translation. The language of