A specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies
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A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, at a time when Hebrew was little understood outside practicing Jewish communities.
The 18th-century British academy was rife with pseudo-scholars, armchair anthropologists, mystics, and "enthusiasts" interested in the Hebrew language for diverse and polemical reasons. [further explanation needed] Empiricism from; the linguistic and historical discovery of Sanskrit, and the putative deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics by some; along with archaeological insight into the ancient Near East brought major sea-changes to Biblical history. Interest in the Hebrew language grew out of raging debates over the historicity of Noah's deluge and other Bible narratives, and even whether Hebrew is the most ancient language of the world taught to Adam by God himself. Some Hebraists held posts in academies or churches, while others were strictly amateur.
Some Hebraists proposed theories that the vowels in the text of the Hebrew Bible, superadded to the text by the scribal tradition, were a Jewish conspiracy to mask the true meaning of Scripture. As a result, a genre of Hebraic scholarship concentrated on running the words of the Biblical text together, removing the vowels, dissecting the words in different ways, and adding alternate vowels so as to give an alternate sense to the text.
A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved...
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background Education Johns Hopkins University Academic work Discipline Hebraist Institutions Gratz College (1924–1969) Dropsie College (1955–1977) Notable...
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as "mist", following Jewish practice, but since the mid-20th century Hebraists have generally accepted that the real meaning is "spring of underground...
(1593–1650), engraver Johannes Buxtorf II (1599–1664), Protestant Christian Hebraist Jacob Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748)...
movement. Abraham Dob Bär Lebensohn (~1790–1878) was a Lithuanian Jewish Hebraist, poet, and grammarian. Abraham Jacob Paperna (1840–1919) was a Russian...
non-Jewish culture, where they were studied and translated by Christian Hebraists and Hermetic occultists. The syncretic traditions of Christian Cabala...
Allison P.; Shoulson, Jeffrey S. (2006). "Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe". The Sixteenth Century...
Clément Marot and Religion (2010), Bucer, a prominent Reformation Christian Hebraist, has been categorised as a Judaizer due to his reliance on later rabbinical...
rational approach Franz Delitzsch (1813–1890), Lutheran theologian and Hebraist Christian Daniel Beck (1757–1832), philologist, historian, theologian and...
University Occupation Scholar of the Bible as literature, university teacher, Hebraist Employer University of California, Berkeley (1967–) Awards Guggenheim...
the theological Jesus in this way was philosopher, writer, classicist, Hebraist and Enlightenment free thinker Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694–1768). Copies...
Weiniger thought in terms of similar dualities as well. Christian HebraistHebraist List of English words of Hebrew origin Bivin, David. "Hebrew Idioms...
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title given to the head of the Reformed clergy in the city, as well as a Hebraist, author, and editor, who taught Paul Jung as his professor of Hebrew at...
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