This book is a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium on the History of the Hebrew Language on 16-17 October 2012. The selection constitutes seven Israeli and two Turkish speakers. The subjects were chosen according to historical periods and contemporary relevance.As regards the ancient period, the contributors discuss the language of the Bible and the Mishnah, as well as that of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which provide an additional insight into what kind of Hebrew was used at the time of their writing.For the Middle Ages, the focus is on the Hebrew of the Genizah documents, mostly from Arabic speaking countries, and also on Hebrew printing in the city of Istanbul, which pioneered the first printing presses in the Ottoman Empire.With regard to the modern period, emphasis is placed on the renaissance of Hebrew, together with a comparison to the modernization of Turkish.Contributions to the symposium dealing with linguistics were devoted to the relations of Hebrew with Aramaic, on the one hand, and with Arabic on the other. A review of the current study of Hebrew in Erciyes and other Turkish universities provided a fitting conclusion to the programme. All in all, the symposium and the publication of its proceedings provided an introduction to the history of Hebrew as an ancient language revived today in the State of Israel.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Produkt-Hinweis
Maße
Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-4438-6628-6 (9781443866286)
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Dr Ali Kuecuekler was born in 1970, and graduated from the Department of Indology of the Faculty of Letters of Ankara University, receiving his MA and PhD degrees on Indology from the same university. He became Assistant Professor in 2009, before becoming Associate Professor in 2013. Dr Kuecuekler has served as the Head of the Indology Department at Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey, since 2009. His publications include a book entitled Hindistan'da Bilimin OEncueleri: Vedik Matematik [The Pioneers of Science in India: Vedic Mathematics] and several articles on Indian literature and culture.Dr Hueseyin Icen received his BA and MA degrees from Hacettepe University, Turkey, and his PhD on English Drama from Ankara University, Turkey. He has conducted research on the teaching of English and English literature in universities in both Leeds and London. Dr Icen became Assistant Professor in 1998, and taught English and English Literature at several universities in Turkey before retiring. He has published several books on English and American writers, and prepared and contributed to several dictionaries, both monolingual and bilingual. He has translated two books and is the author of numerous articles in Turkish literary and academic journals on Turkish and English languages and literatures. He is currently editing a literary journal published in Ankara, Turkey. He is also interested in the collecting of quotations, having published some of his collections.
