[PDF.20lj] In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language

In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language

[PDF.uw33] In the Beginning: A Short History of the Hebrew Language

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 | #1006106 in Books |  NYU Press |  2006-03-01 |  2006-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.63 x5.98l,.85 | File type: PDF | 280 pages

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting, but somewhat overstated in its conclusions regarding the primacy of Hebrew in the development of vowel systems|By Ulfilas|This book provides an interesting history of the evolution of Hebrew. Special attention is given to the idea that Hebrew deserves a special place in the evolution of writing because it was (supposedly) the language in which vowels were first in| ||“Those with a passion for Hebrew, linguistics and religious history will probably find much to captivate them.”| -Na'amat Woman

|“Hoffman has a flair for explaining how languages work.”|-Times Literary Supplement

Hebrew as a language is just over 3,000 years old, and the story of its alphabet is unique among the languages of the world. Hebrew set the stage for almost every modern alphabet, and was arguably the first written language simple enough for everyone, not just scribes, to learn, making it possible to make a written record available to the masses for the first time.

Written language has existed for so many years—since around 3500 BCE—that most of us ...

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