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Chapter Twenty-seven. The Linguistic Context of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic in the Framework of Semitic Philology, Including Semitic Epigraphy

2014
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The Contributions of Frank Moore Cross to Semitic and Hebrew Philology

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 2014
Frank Moore Cross's contributions to Semitic and Hebrew philology were both direct and indirect: direct, in his publications on aspects of Hebrew, Phoenician, and Aramaic grammar; and indirect, in ...
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The Semitic Component in Yiddish and its Ideological Role in Yiddish Philology

Philological Encounters, 2017
The article discusses the ideological role played by the Semitic component in Yiddish in four major texts of Yiddish philology from the first half of the 20th century: Ysroel Haim Taviov’s “The Hebrew Elements of the Jargon” (1904); Ber Borochov’s “The Tasks of Yiddish Philology” (1913); Nokhem Shtif’s “The Social Differentiation of Yiddish: Hebrew ...
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“FOREIGN WORDS ARE THE JEWS OF LANGUAGE”:

2022
International ...
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Semitic Philology and the Wissenschaft des Judentums. Revisiting Leopold Zunz’s Etwas über die rabbinische Litteratur (1818)

Philological Encounters, 2017
The article begins with a brief sketch of the beginnings of Semitics and the Wissenschaft des Judentums, highlighting the theological roots of the former and the relation of each to Jewish emancipation in Prussia. The second section presents a close reading of Leopold Zunz’s Etwas über die rabbinische Litteratur (1818), a text that initiates the ...
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ABRACADABRA: A SEMITIC-RITUAL FORMULA OF SPEECH, CREATION, AND TEXTUAL ENTROPY A Philological, Historical-Religious, and Comparative Semitic Analysis of an Ancient Magical Formula

This study presents a comprehensive philological, historical-religious, and comparative Semitic analysis of the expression "abracadabra," one of the most recognizable ritual formulas in the history of Western civilization. Although today primarily associated with stage magic and popular culture, the term originally functioned within a late antique ...
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Forty-Nive Years of Aramaic and Semitic Philology at Layard's Home, Ca' Cappello

2018
Aramaic has been taught at Ca' Foscari for almost fifty years in the unique setting of Ca' Cappello, former Venetian residence of the archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. There, in a most inspiring environment for Semitists, from 1969 to prente, seven specialists have taught Semitic languages to generations of students.
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The Etymology of the Hebrew Lexeme ʾĀdām (אָדָם): A Comparative Philological Analysis of Biblical Hebrew and Semitic Evidence

Abstract The etymology of the Hebrew lexeme ʾādām (אָדָם) remains one of the most debated questions in Biblical Hebrew and Semitic philology. Although the relationship between ʾādām ("human, אדם") and ʾădāmāh ("ground, soil, אדמה") has traditionally been regarded as self-evident, modern historical-comparative linguistics has demonstrated that literary
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Notes and Review: Studies in Semitic Philology

The Bible Translator, 1978
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Job 29-31 in the Light of Northwest Semitic: A Translation and Philological Commentary

Journal of Biblical Literature, 1983
D. N. Freedman, Anthony R. Ceresko
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