Learning Hebrew in Medieval England by Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
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Learning Hebrew in Medieval England

Learning Hebrew in Medieval England


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The fountainhead of theology, a "doorway to wisdom," or a philological riddle: there were many reasons to learn Hebrew for inquisitive Christian minds in the Middle Ages. Although preoccupation with the meanings of the names of the Hebrew letters and their presumed inherent virtues can be traced back to the early Church Fathers, the rediscovery of classical sources and Aristotelian philosophy and the engagement with Graeco-Arabic sciences that marked the renaissance of the twelfth century also brought about an acute awareness of the need for a philological understanding of the Hebrew language.

In England in particular, various factors combined together to encourage and facilitate the study of Hebrew texts, not only among well-known writers such as Andrew of St Victor, Herbert of Bosham, and Alexander Neckam in the twelfth century, and Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon in the thirteenth, but also among English scholars whose names have not been preserved. They nevertheless produced bilingual Hebrew-Latin manuscripts in collaboration with Jewish scribes, along with manuals, textbooks, and reference aids to facilitate access to the sources.

Learning Hebrew in Medieval England presents an edition and analysis of one such learning tool: a thirteenth-century grammar written in Hebrew, Latin, and Anglo-Norman French (the vernacular language of the Jews of England) in a complex combination of Hebrew and Latin alphabets. It can be traced to the Benedictine Ramsey Abbey in East Anglia and is preserved in a unique copy in a volume that is today part of the private collection of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat House in Wiltshire.


About the Author: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Professor of Hebrew Palaeography at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris-Sciences-Lettres. She is the author of numerous publications, including Les manuscrits hebreux dans l'Angleterre medievale: Etude historique et paleographique (2003) and Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England, in two volumes (2015). With Anne Grondeux et al., she is the editor of Dictionnaire hebreu-latin-francais de la Bible hebraique de l'abbaye de Ramsey (XIIIe s.) (2008); she has also co-edited several collections, among them Books within Books: New Discoveries in Old Book Bindings (2013), with Andreas Lehnardt, and A Universal Art: Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths (2014), with Nadia Vidro and Irene E. Zwiep.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780888442307
  • Publisher: PIMS
  • Publisher Imprint: PIMS
  • Edition: Multilingual edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Christian Scholars and the Longleat House Grammar
  • Width: 159 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0888442300
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 228
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 589 gr


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