Z'man L'Tefilah Vol 1 & 2 Teacher's Guide
by Hillary Zana and Dina Maiben
The Hebrew word for "letter," -- ot -- also means "sign" or "wonder" or "miracle." For thousands of years, Jewish sages have taught that the letters of the Hebrew alphabet embody miraculous powers. According to the earliest known book on Jewish mysticism, The Sefer Yetzirah (The Book of Creation), written more than 15 centuries ago, God formed the entire universe by speaking aloud the 22 letters. These letters are the building blocks of creation. They are also archetypes. Each one expresses a s...
Kitāb Al-Mustalḥaq by Ibn Ǧanāḥ Of Cordoba (Etudes sur le judaisme medieval)
by Jose Martinez Delgado
Samuel David Luzzatto: Prolegomena to a Grammar of the Hebrew Language
by Aaron D. Rubin
Translated for the first time, with annotations and useful additions, this long under-appreciated work of S. D. Luzzatto is now available to modern scholars. A history of both Hebrew and Hebrew scholarship, it is replete with valuable information and insight.
La Langue DES Sages (Collection de la Revue des Etudes Juives, v.27)
by S. Kessler-Mesguich
Depuis une cinquantaine d'annees, l'etude philologique et linguistique de l'hebreu mishnique - "la langue des sages" comme on la designe en hebreu contemporain s'est considerablement developpee. Sous l'impulsion d'E.-Y. Kutscher, la phonologie, la morphologie, la semantique, la syntaxe de l'hebreu mishnique, l'analyse de ses relations avec la langue de la Bible et avec l'arameen, la mise en lumiere de ses multiples traditions et de ses differents dialectes, ont ete renouvelees en profondeur. Les...
Z'Man l'Tefilah Volume 4 - Teacher's Guide
by Hillary Zana and Dina Maiben
The new edition of Achad Ha am s Am Scheidewege [At the Crossroads] makes essays published by the founder of Cultural Zionism in 1923 accessible again for the first time. In these works the author sets out his view of Jewish identity and, in debate with the political Zionism of Theodor Herzl, advocates a Jewish nationalism that focuses above all on the cultural renewal of Judaism in Europe. An introduction and commentary by the editor Christian Wiese explain the significance of these writings wh...
An Inquiry Into the Knowledge of the Antient Hebrews Concerning a Future State (1801)
by Joseph Priestley
This book explores salient topics in Hebrew orthography, phonology, and morphology from the Dead Sea Scrolls. The book, helpfully divided into short sections that treat specific linguistic phenomena, presents a synopsis of previous research and critiques this research by, among other things, considering evidence from recently published scrolls. Reymond argues that several grammatical matters distinguish his study from previous studies of Hebrew in the Dead Sea Scrolls. First, he emphasizes probl...
Strengthen Hebrew decoding skills with games and activities in ten minutes a session.
Biblical Hebrew in Context (Oudtestamentische Studi n, Old Testament Studies)
How to talk dirty and influence people-in Hebrew! You can study Hebrew for years, but do you really know how to talk like a native speaker? The next book in Plume's foreign language series, Zubi! will make sure you learn all the colorful vernacular words and phrases for a variety of situations,including insulting your neighbor,flirting with the hot guy or girl at the club, and even chatting online-not to mention plenty of Hebrew words that are...well, best not to mention. Accessible and u...
Hineni Express: The Fast Track to Hebrew and Prayer (Hineni)
by Ellen Rank
Combines all three volumes of Hineni into one easy-to-use book for effective prayer learning. Excellent for b'nai mitzvah preparation especially for later starters in your program.
In papers originally presented at a conference on [title] held at the U. of Maryland in March 1990, 15 scholars in Judaic studies explore the Jewish attachment to Hebrew in 20th-century North America. The volume is divided into three sections: the enterprise of Tarbut Ivrit (Hebrew culture), Hebrew