This title places Christian Hebraism in a larger context by discussing authors and their books as mediators of Jewish learning, printers and booksellers as its transmitters, and the imapct of press controls in shaping the public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts.
The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book explains that transformation by focusing on how authors, printers, booksellers, and censors created a public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts.
This book enters new territory by moving toward a new conceptual framework for comparative and interdisciplinary research on transcultural state formation. Once more, statehood and governance are highly discussed topics, whereby modern state building is often considered to be a …
Introduction -- Conceptualizing linguistic hybridity -- Translating language, Translating perception -- Constructing the target-text reader's allegiance -- Translating the characters' world-view -- From theory to practice.
