The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories by : Glenda Abramson

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Hebrew Short Stories written by Glenda Abramson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.

Hebrew Tales

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
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Book Synopsis Hebrew Tales by : Hyman Hurwitz

Download or read book Hebrew Tales written by Hyman Hurwitz and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Hebrew

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183090
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Hebrew by : Lewis Glinert

Download or read book The Story of Hebrew written by Lewis Glinert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history. Preserved by the Jews across two millennia, Hebrew endured long after it ceased to be a mother tongue, resulting in one of the most intense textual cultures ever known. Hebrew was a bridge to Greek and Arab science, and it unlocked the biblical sources for Jerome and the Reformation. Kabbalists and humanists sought philosophical truth in it, and Colonial Americans used it to shape their own Israelite political identity. Today, it is the first language of millions of Israelis. A major work of scholarship, The Story of Hebrew is an unforgettable account of what one language has meant and continues to mean.

The Illustrated Hebrew Bible

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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810982246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Book Synopsis The Illustrated Hebrew Bible by : Ellen Frankel

Download or read book The Illustrated Hebrew Bible written by Ellen Frankel and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to bring the wisdom of centuries to a wide audience, this illustrated Hebrew Bible includes 40 selections from the Torah and 35 from Prophets and Writings. It collects compelling stories from this ancient text which are retold in lyrical, accessible language. The volume is illustrated with reproductions of illuminated manuscripts, ancient artefacts, synagogue mosaics and paintings by Renaissance masters an others, including William Blake and Marc Chagall.

Hebrew Myths

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Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795337159
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Hebrew Myths by : Robert Graves

Download or read book Hebrew Myths written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The I, Claudius author’s “lightning sharp interpretations and insights . . . are here brought to bear with equal effectiveness on the Book of Genesis” (Kirkus Reviews). This is a comprehensive look at the stories that make up the Old Testament and the Jewish religion, including the folk tales, apocryphal texts, midrashes, and other little-known documents that the Old Testament and the Torah do not include. In this exhaustive study, Robert Graves provides a fascinating account of pre-Biblical texts that have been censored, suppressed, and hidden for centuries, and which now emerge to give us a clearer view of Hebrew myth and religion than ever. Venerable classicist and historian Robert Graves recounts the ancient Hebrew stories, both obscure and familiar, with a rich sense of storytelling, culture, and spirituality. This book is sure to be riveting to students of Jewish or Judeo-Christian history, culture, and religion.

Hebrew Talk

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Publisher : Eks Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Book Synopsis Hebrew Talk by : Joseph Lowin

Download or read book Hebrew Talk written by Joseph Lowin and published by Eks Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sword of Judith

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924155
Total Pages : 511 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sword of Judith by : Kevin R. Brine

Download or read book The Sword of Judith written by Kevin R. Brine and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music.

Tales and Customs of the Ancient Hebrews for Young Readers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Book Synopsis Tales and Customs of the Ancient Hebrews for Young Readers by : Eva Herbst

Download or read book Tales and Customs of the Ancient Hebrews for Young Readers written by Eva Herbst and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Book that was Lost and Other Stories

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Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 9780805210668
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis A Book that was Lost and Other Stories by : Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Download or read book A Book that was Lost and Other Stories written by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad selection of the short stories of SY Agnon winner of the 1966 Nobel prize for literature presents a panoramic and probing vision of the writer as chronicler of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry and the emergent society of modern Israel.

The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725234246
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World by : Lawrence M. Wills

Download or read book The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World written by Lawrence M. Wills and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence M. Wills here traces the literary evolution of popular Jewish narratives written during the period 200 BCE-100 CE. In many ways, these narratives were similar to Greek and Roman novels of the same era, as well as to popular novels of indigenous peoples within the Roman Empire. Yet, as a group, they demonstrated a variety of novelistic innovations: the inclusion of adventurous episodes, passages of description and of dialogue, concern with psychological motivation, and the introduction of female characters. Wills focuses on five novels: Greek Esther, Greek Daniel, Judith, Tobit, and Joseph and Aseneth. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical works, he delineates the techniques and motifs of the Jewish novel, shows how the genre both initiated and distanced itself from nonfictional prose such as historical and philosophical writing, discusses its relation to Greco-Roman romance, and describes the social conditions governing its emergence and reception. Wills also places the novels in historical context, situating them between the Hebrew Bible, on the one hand, and subsequent developments in Jewish and Christian literature on the other. Wills sees the Jewish novel as a popular form of writing that provided amusement for an expanding audience of Jewish entrepreneurs, merchants, and bureaucrats. In an important sense, he maintains, it was a product of the "novelistic impulse": the impulse to transfer oral stories to a written medium to reach a more literate audience.

The Hasidic Tale

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821098
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hasidic Tale by : Gedalyah Nigal

Download or read book The Hasidic Tale written by Gedalyah Nigal and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its inception. Stories about the hasidic leaders and their mystical powers attracted followers and maintained their devotion, and still do so today. This important work, based on analysis of all the published anthologies of such stories, presents them by theme and traces their origins. Originally published in Hebrew and expanded for this edition, it makes a fascinating contribution to the history of hasidism, of Hebrew literature, and of Jewish popular culture.

The Hebrew Folktale

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253002624
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hebrew Folktale by : Eli Yassif

Download or read book The Hebrew Folktale written by Eli Yassif and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most comprehensive account of its subject now available, this impressive study lives up to the encyclopedic promise of its title." -- Choice The Hebrew Folktale seeks to find and define the folk-elements of Jewish culture. Through the use of generic distinctions and definitions developed in folkloristics, Yassif describes the major trends -- structural, thematic, and functional -- of folk narrative in the central periods of Jewish culture.

Ancient Hebrew Stories and Their Modern Interpretation

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Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596053348
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Hebrew Stories and Their Modern Interpretation by : W. G. Jordan

Download or read book Ancient Hebrew Stories and Their Modern Interpretation written by W. G. Jordan and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story has called forth the highest praise from the most competent critics for its simple beautiful presentation of scenes from the rural life of ancient Israel. It is artistic in the noblest sense, though it is not likely that in those days there was much consciousness of art of discussion as to the technique of story-telling.-from "Ruth: A Woman's Faithfulness and Its Reward"With an emphasis on the Bible as literature, this classic 1922 work examines the stories of the Old Testament with a modern eye, exploring not only their religious and historical significance but their beauty and effectiveness as prose and as examples of the art of storytelling. Among the tales considered are: .The Creation of the World.The First Murder.The Tower of Babel.The Story of Jacob.Samson: or A Strong Man's Failure.Saul and the Witch of Endor.The Story of Job: The Problem of Suffering.The Story of Jonah: A Prophetic Satire.and more.Canadian scholar W. G. JORDAN was professor of Hebrew language and literature at Queen's University, Kingston. He also wrote Biblical Criticism and Modern Thought (1909).

The Book of Tahkemoni

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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821179
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis The Book of Tahkemoni by : Judah Alharizi

Download or read book The Book of Tahkemoni written by Judah Alharizi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crowning jewel of medieval Hebrew rhymed prose in vigorous translation vividly illuminates a lost Iberian world. With full scholarly annotation and literary analysis.

Tales in Context

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Publisher : African American Life Series
ISBN 13 : 9780814342718
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales in Context by : Rella Kushelevsky

Download or read book Tales in Context written by Rella Kushelevsky and published by African American Life Series. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, an anonymous scribe compiled sixty-nine tales that became Sefer ha-ma'asim, the earliest compilation of Hebrew tales known to us in Western Europe. The author writes that the stories encompass "descriptions of herbs that cure leprosy, a fairy princess with golden tresses using magic charms to heal her lover's wounds and restore him to life; a fire-breathing dragon . . . a two-headed creature and a giant's daughter for whom the rind of a watermelon containing twelve spies is no more than a speck of dust." In Tales in Context: Sefer ha-ma'asim in Medieval Northern France, Rella Kushelevsky enlightens the stories' meanings and reflects the circumstances and environment for Jewish lives in medieval France. Although a selection of tales was previously published, this is the first publication of a Hebrew-English annotated edition in its entirety, revealing fresh insight. The first part of Kushelevsky's work, "Cultural, Literary and Comparative Perspectives," presents the thesis that Sefer ha-ma'asim is a product of its time and place, and should therefore be studied within its literary and cultural surroundings, Jewish and vernacular, in northern France. An investigation of the scribe's techniques in reworking his Jewish and non-Jewish sources into a medieval discourse supports this claim. The second part of the manuscript consists of the tales themselves, in Hebrew and English translation, including brief comparative comments or citations. The third part, "An Analytical and Comparative Overview," offers an analysis of each tale as an individual unit, contextualized within its medieval framework and against the background of its parallels. Elisheva Baumgarten's epilogue adds social and historical background to Sefer ha-ma'asim and discusses new ways in which it and other story compilations may be used by historians for an inquiry into the everyday life of medieval Jews. The tales in Sefer ha-ma'asim will be of special value to scholars of folklore and medieval European history and literature, as well as those looking to enrich their studies and shelves.

A Grammar of the Hebrew Language

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Hebrew Language by : Hyman Hurwitz

Download or read book A Grammar of the Hebrew Language written by Hyman Hurwitz and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351676970
Total Pages : 1258 pages
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Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003) by : Norman Roth

Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Jewish Civilization (2003) written by Norman Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003, this is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. Based on the research of an international, multidisciplinary team of specialist contributors, the more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biographies, countries, events, social history, and religious concepts. The coverage is international, presenting people, culture, and events from various countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.