Hebrew

Johann Buxtorf was a pivotal figure in the history of Hebrew studies. He composed grammars and lexicons of biblical Hebrew both for beginning students and for researchers. He was committed to establishing Hebrew as a full-fledged humanist language within the academic world and c…

This dissertation is a comparative historical study of the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken language and the Turkish language reform. It traces the birth of linguistic nationalism back to its origins in both cases and attempts to explain the crystallization of this pol…

The dissertation examines the idea of Orientalism and its influence on the Hebrew Revival at the turn of the 19th century, especially the role of Hebrew literature in shaping modern Jewish nationality and culture in relation to the East. The work analyzes the influence of the Or…

This dissertation orchestrates a systematic comparison of syntax between Classical Arabic and Classical Hebrew. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the origin of Arabic language, its history from efflorescence to decline, the different grammatical schools of Arabic, and the resur…

This dissertation focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses and/or responds to different types of loss. It examines the definition of al-Andalus' literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual losses. By l…

This dissertation discusses retention of Resumptive Pronouns (RPs) in the English Relative Clauses of Hebrew and Arabic speakers; Hebrew and Arabic allow RPs, while English does not. A nineteen-item oral elicitation task and a 70-item written grammaticality judgment task were ad…

This study is mainly concerned with syntactic licensing. Within this context, two issues are addressed: predication and feature checking. As regards the latter, I argue that the present system is inadequate due to two reasons: first, there is redundancy regarding features of lex…

Diasporic Culture and the Makings of Alexander Romances is a cultural study of how Alexander Romances interact with and reflect medieval Jewish and Islamic attitudes toward astrology. Legends about Alexander the Great are connected to some of the deepest religious and philosophi…

The present study examines three Jewish scholars, Elijah Levita, Azariah de Rossi, and Moses Provencali, and their writings on the Hebrew language. Their scholarship illustrates the variety of attitudes towards Hebrew that circulated among Jews in the sixteenth century. The subj…