S. D. Luzzatto’s Program for Restoring Jewish Leadership in Hebrew Studies

This article demonstrates that S. D. Luzzatto’s Prolegomeni a una grammatica ragionata della lingua ebraica (1836) was a critical response to the scholarship of Christian Hebraists, motivated by the drive of its author to reclaim from Christians the leading position in the study of the Hebrew langua...

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Main Author: Di Giulio, Marco (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2015
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2015, Volume: 105, Issue: 3, Pages: 340-366
Further subjects:B Judaizmus and Atticizmus
B Rabbinical seminary of Padua
B Wissenschaft des Judentums
B Jewish scholarship
B Hebrew grammar
B genius of the language
B I. S. Reggio
B A. Schultens
B Profiat Duran
B Jonah Ibn Jana@h
B Arabic
B W. Gesenius
B Aramaic
B J. L. Rapoport
B 19th-century Italian Judaism
B Prolegomeni
B A. Ewald
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