In January 1998 leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Israel in the fields of medieval encyclopedias (Arabic, Latin and Hebrew) and medieval Jewish philosophy and science gathered together at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, for an international conference on medieval Hebrew
Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis: Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival
β Scribed by David Aberbach (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 176
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Toward a Sociological Gestalt....Pages 1-27
Hebrew Prophecy and the Negation of Empire 750β500 BCE....Pages 28-45
Hebrew in the βEvil Empireβ of Rome 66β200 CE....Pages 46-91
Hebrew Poetry and the Empire of Islam 1031β1140....Pages 92-116
Hebrew in the Tsarist Empire 1881β1917....Pages 117-137
Back Matter....Pages 138-164
β¦ Subjects
Gender Studies; Ethnicity Studies; Literature, general; Social History; Jewish Cultural Studies
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