Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Issue Date
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Review of ‘The Indo–European and Semitic Languages’, by Saul Levin.
(New York: CUNY, 1972-04)In this massive and well-edited volume, Levin investigates in minute detail the extent of the functional and formal similarities which he has discovered between certain grammatical morphemes of Hebrew and Greek or Sanskrit. -
On the origin of the Heder-Hadar alternation in Hebrew.
(Monographic Journals of the Near East / Afroasiatic Linguistics, 1974-03-25)The heder-hadar alternation is limited to nouns with final resonant, because resonants are particularly prone to acquisition of syllabicity, which, in turn, often leads to epenthesis. The construct forms of such nouns ... -
Not just another contemporary Jewish problem a historical discussion of phylacteries
([New York] : Student Organization of Yeshiva, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary,Yeshiva University, 1976)"And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hands and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. "1 Maimonides writes that contained in these words of the Torah are the injunctions to wear the phylactery of the ... -
The Case for Fricative-Laterals in Proto-Semitic.
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From Proto-Hebrew to Mishnaic Hebrew: the history of "-akh" and "-ah".
(Hebrew Annual Review, 1979) -
[On] Joshua Blau, "An adverbial construction in Hebrew and Arabic" (1977).
(Afroasiatic Linguistics, 1979) -
Trinitarian and multiplicity polemics in the biblical commentaries of Rashi, Rashbam, and Bekhor Shor.
(Student Organization of Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University, 1979)The Old Testament was the single most important source for proof-texts in Jewish-Christian polemics of the High Middle Ages. Christians attempted to show that doctrines such as the Trinity and virgin birth were implicit ... -
Review of ‘An Adverbial Construction in Hebrew and Arabic: Sentence Adverbials in Frontal Position Separated from the Rest of the Sentence’, by Joshua Blau
(Udena, 1979-03)This book deals with sentence adverbials in initial position which are joined to (or, in B's interpretation, separated from) the rest of the sentence by a conjuntion and/or presentative. -
Yuqaṭṭil, Yaqaṭṭil, or Yiqaṭṭil: D-Stem Prefix-Vowels and a Constraint on Reduction in Hebrew and Aramaic.
(American Oriental Society, 1980-10)The prefix-vowel of the Proto-Hebrew (and perhaps also the Proto-Aramaic) D-stem imperfect is not u or a, as is generally believed, but i. Evidence is adduced from the Babylonian reading tradition, and (for Proto-Hebrew ... -
Affricated Ṣade in the semitic languages.
(The American Academy for Jewish Research, 1982) -
T. M. Johnstone. Harsusi Lexicon and English-Harsusi Word-List. London: OUP, 1977. Reviewed by Richard C. Steiner.
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Richard C. Steiner, “Review of ‘Ḥarsūsi Lexicon and English–Ḥarsūsi Word–List’, by T. M. Johnstone
(Udena, 1982-12)The Ḥarsūsi language is so important to Semitists and so close to extinction, and our knowledge of it so meager and so imperfect, that a new lexicon of that language cannot fail to be an important contribution to the ... -
A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
(American Oriental Society, 1983)IN 1944, Raymond Bowman announced his discovery that the mystery papyrus of the Pierpont Morgan Library's Amherst collection, a demotic papyrus unintelligible to demoticists, was "An Aramaic Religious Text in Demotic ... -
Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides
(Harvard UP, 1983)The centrality of miracles in Nahmanides' theology cannot escape the attention of even the most casual observer. and his doctrine of the hidden miracle exercised a particularly profound and abiding influence on subsequent ... -
A Paganized Version of Psalm 20:2-6 from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
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Schools and Education.
(London: Cambridge University Press, 1984)Given the relative paucity of sources, and the need to utilize the sources that are available as effectively as possible, this treatment of medieval Jewish education will be organized by region. Although there are ... -
You Can't Offer Your Sacrifice and Eat It Too: A Polemical Poem from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
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Attitudes toward childhood and children in medieval Jewish society
(Scholars Press, 1985)In 1960, Phillipe Ari8s published a controversial book entitled L'enfant et la vie familiale sous l'ancien régime. 1 The book was translated into English in 1962 and entitled Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of ... -
Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shum-ukin: A Tale of Two Brothers from the Aramaic Text in Demotic Script.
(J Gabalda & Cie Editeurs, 1985-01)This is the third of a series of articles dealing with the Aramaic text in demotic script, 2 and the most ambitious one to Our first article 3 (and parts of our second) 4 dealt with a short (8-line), simple passage, ...
