Hebrew Language #16 Hebrew Literature #13 Maimonides, Maimonists and anti-Maimonists

3 Jul 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, Faith, God (English articles), History, Language, Public personalities, World | tagged 12° Century, Abdul Arab Ibn Muisha = Abu al-'Arab alMu'ishah, Aboab family, Abraham ben David of Posquières = RABaD or RABaD III, Al-Andalus = Andalusia, al-Fusṭāṭ = al-Fostat (cap. of prov. Egypt - E. bank of Nile River - S. of Cairo), Al-Fusṭāṭ = Fostat (cap. of provi.ce of Egypt, Almohads = al-Muwaḥḥidūn, Anthropomorphism (religion), Aphorismi (work attributed to Hippocrates), Aristotelianism, Baḥya ben Asher = Bahya ben Asher ibn Halawa, Bahir = Sefer ha-bahir = Book of Brightness (symbolic com. on O.T.), Baruch Spinoza, Berber confederation(s), Biblical anthropomorphism(s), Córdoba = Cordova, Conflict between religion and philosophy, Fez = Fès (city N. Morocco), Hebrew language, Hebrew Literature, Homonym(s), Incorporeality of God, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca = Isaak Aboab Foonsec, Isaac Aboab I = Isaac ben Abraham Aboab, Isaac Aboab of Castile = Isaac Aboab II, Isaac the Blind = Yitzhak Saggi Nehor = Isaac ben Abraham of Posquières, Islamic empire, Islamic Spain, Jewish community, Judah ibn Shoshan, King James I of Aragon, Maimon (Maimun) ben Joseph (father of Maimonides - Rambam), Maimonides = Moses Maimonides = Moses ben Maimon = Abū ʿImran Mūsā ibn Maymūn ibn ʿUbayd Allāh = Rambam, Maimonist(s), Mishnah (Mishna), Mishneh Tōrah = Yad haḥazaqah = Sefer Yad ha-Hazaka (code of Rabbinic Jew. relig. law by Maimonides), Moses ben Naḥman (Ramban) = Moses ben Nachman = Moses ben Naḥman Gerondi = Naḥamani = Nahmanides = Nachmanides = Bonastruc da Porta, Orally revelation(s), Pentateuch, Portuguese-Israelite community, Rabbi ‘Aqība = Akiva ben Yosef = Rabbi Akiva, Sabbatai Zevi (Sabbatai Zebi or Sabbatai Zevi), Shem Ṭōbh ben Joseph Falaquera = Palquera, Shimon bar Yochai = Simeon ben Yoḥai = Shimon bar Yochai = Rashbi, Solomon Adreth of Barcelona, Talmud, Written revelation(s), Zohar = Sefer ha-zohar = Book of Splendour (esot. Jew. mystic text) | 5 Comments

Today we come to one of the most important figures of Jewish literature of the medieval period, the Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician Maimonides often better known as Rambam.

Hebrew Language #14 Hebrew Literature #11 French school of the 11th century

29 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, History, Language, Public personalities, World | tagged 11° Century, Andalusian Hebrew poetry, Arthur Ernest Cowley, Biblical criticism, Biblical exegesis, Christian exegesis, France, French school, Germany, Gershom ben Judah = Rabbeinu Gershom, Hebrew grammarian(s), Hebrew lexicographer(s), Hebrew Literature, Isaac ben Eleazar ha-Levi Rabbi Isaac ben Eliezer Halevi = Isaac Segan Lewiyah = Isaac of Lotar = Isaac of Lorraine, Jacob ben Yaqar, Jewish philosophy, Joseph Bekhōr Shōr = Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor = Joseph Bekhōr Shōr of Orleans, Lorraine, Mishnah (Mishna), Peshaṭ = literal interpretations, Piyyutim = liturgical poems, Rabbinical responsa, Saadia Bekhor Shor, Samuel ben Meïr = RaSHBaM (grandson of Rashi), Solomon ben Isaac = Solomon bar Isaac = Shlomo Yitzchaki = Salomon Isaacides = Salomon de Troyes = Rashi, Study of the Talmud, Talmudic commentator(s), Taqqanah = takkanah (pl. takkanot = taqqanot), Tosafot (additional commentaries), Tosaphists = Tosafists = ba'ale ha-tosafot = authors of the Tosafot, Tree of life, Tōsafōth = Tosafoth - Tosafot - Tosafos - Tosfot (medieval com. on Talmud), Yeshibah of Paris | 7 Comments

The French school of the 11th century was hardly less important. Gershom ben Judah, the “Light of the Exile” (d. in 1040 at Mainz), a famous Talmudist and commentator, his pupil Jacob ben Yaqar, and Moses of Narbonne, called ha-Darshan, the “Exegete,” were the forerunners of the greatest of all Jewish commentators, Solomon ben Isaac […]

Hebrew Language #11 Hebrew Literature #8 The Qaraites or Karaites

23 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Faith, History, Language, Public personalities, Theology | tagged 10° Century, 11° Century, 12° Century, 13° Century, 14° Century, 15° Century, 16° Century, 17° Century, 8° Century, 9° Century, Aaron (the elder) ben Joseph of Constantinople, Aaron (the younger) of Nicomedia = Aaron ben Elijah (Aharon son of Eliyahu) of Nicomedia, Abraham Firkovich = Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich, Abu Ḥanifa = Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit b. Zūṭā ibn Marzubān = Abu Hanifa, Abū’l-faraj Furqān = Abdul Faraj Furkan, Anan = Anan ben David, Ananites, Anti-rabbinic forms of Judaism, Anti-rabbinic reaction(s), Arthur Ernest Cowley, Atatürk's Reforms, Ḥanafī school of Abū Ḥanīfah, Babylonian Exile - Babylonian Captivity, Bakh-chisarai, Benjamin al-Nehawendi, Crimea, Crimean districts of Eupatoria, Crimean Peninsula, Crimean Tatar, Crimean Tatar(s), Daniel al-Qūmisī = Daniel al-Kumisi:, Era of the Geonim = Geonic period, Essenes, Eupatoria, Fall of the Ottoman Empire, Golden Horde, Halakhah (the Way) = totality of laws + ordinances regulating religious observances, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew liturgy, Isaac of Troki = Isaac ben Abraham of Troki, Islamic legal doctrine, Israel Abrahams, Jewish philologist(s), Jewish religious law, Jewish religious movement(s), Jewish theology, Kaba Türkçe = raw / Vulgar Turkish, Karaism = Karaite = Karaitism =Judaism, Karaite community, Karaite lore, Karaite religious movement, Kipchak language, Lithuania, Madhhabs = canonical schools of Islamic law, Mishnah (Mishna), Office of exilarch, Ottoman Turkish, Perso-Arabic script, Philosopher(s), Piyyutim = liturgical poems, Post-Ottoman era, Qaraite literature = Karaite literature, Qaraites = Karaites - qara scripturarii = Benē miqrā = children of the Text - followers of the Scripture, Rabbanite literature, Rabbanite(s), Religious philosophy, Republic of Turkey, Sadducees, Sefer ha-Mitzvot = Book of the Precept (by Anan ben David), Sevastopil = Sevastopol = Sebastopol (seaport city - Crimea - S. Ukraine), Solomon ben Yeruḥam, Solomon of Troki = Solomon ben Aaron Troki, Southern Russia, Tanzimât era, Tatar dialect, Tatar language, Ten Lost Tribes, Theodosia > Kaffa > Feodosiya = Feodosia = Theodosia (city - S. Ukraine), Tshufut-Kale = Jews’ Castle, Turkic languages, West London Synagogue of British Jews, Yefet ben ʽAlī= Yefet ben Ali, Yevpatoriya = Evpatoriya = Eupatoria (city - Crimea - S. Ukraine), Yūsuf al-Baṣīr= Yusuf al-Basir = Joseph ben Abraham = ha-Ro'eh = the Seer | 10 Comments

A look at Karaite Judaism (“Followers of the Bible”) which had its base in the Crimea in the Middle Ages, and looking at the influence of its teachers and writings on Christianity and Islam.

Hebrew Language #8 Hebrew Literature #5 Talmud and Masorah

17 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, History, Language, Public personalities | tagged 7° Century, Amora (pl. Amoraim) = Jew. scholar + interpreter - reciter, Amorāīm - Amoraim - Amoray = those who say = spokesmen (Jew. scholars), Arthur Ernest Cowley, Asher ben Yeḥīel = Asher ben Jehiel = Rabbenū Asher - Rabbenu Asher = Asheri, Babhlī - Bavli, Babylonian School(s), Babylonian Talmud, Ben Asher of Tiberias = Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, Ben Naphthali, Bomberg Bible of 1524, Bomberg Bibles, Copyist(s), Elijah Levita = Elias Levita = Elia Levita, Gemara (rab. comment.), Great Masorah, Halakhah (the Way) = totality of laws + ordinances regulating religious observances, Hebrew Literature, Hebrew liturgy, Hebrew schools, Instruction, Isaac Alfasī = Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen, Jacob ben Ḥayyīm = Jacob ben Hayyim ibn Adonijah = Jacob ben Chayyim, Johannes Buxtorf the elder, Masoretes, Masoretic Text, Masoretic treatises, Massekheth Sōferīm = Masseket Soferim, Massorah = Masorah or Mesorah, Mishnah (Mishna), Mishnic text, Okhlah we-Okhlah = Sefer Oklah we-Oklah, Palestinian School(s), Palestinian Talmud (Yerushalmī), Sherira bar Hanina = Sherira Gaon, Small Masorah, Solomon ben Isaac = Solomon bar Isaac = Shlomo Yitzchaki = Salomon Isaacides = Salomon de Troyes = Rashi, Study of halakhah, Study of the Talmud, Talmud, Talmud Babhlī = Talmud Bavli Babylonian Talmud, Targum, Tōsafōth = Tosafoth - Tosafot - Tosafos - Tosfot (medieval com. on Talmud) | 13 Comments

In the previous chapter we said that traditional teaching was not confined to halakhah, or the ordinances regulating religious observances. We saw that it was the duty of the teachers to show the connexion of practical rules with the written Law. And as such Midrash, exposition, from darash arised to “investigate” a scriptural passage and […]

Hebrew Language #7 Hebrew Literature #4 Mishnah and Midrash

15 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, History, Language, Public personalities | tagged Agada (homiletical exposition), Amorāīm - Amoraim - Amoray = those who say = spokesmen (Jew. scholars), Arthur Ernest Cowley, Code of oral tradition, Collection of halakhic material, Darash, Halakhah (the Way) = totality of laws + ordinances regulating religious observances, Hebrew Literature, Judaic traditional teaching, Mekhilta (collection of rules of interpretation), Midrash (midrashim) (Jew. Bibl. exeg.), Mishnah (Mishna), MSS. from Yemen, Oral Torah, Period of the Amorāīm, Pesīqta - Pesiqta - Pesikta, Rabbi ‘Aqība = Akiva ben Yosef = Rabbi Akiva, Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbōth - Rabboth =Midrash Rabba - Midrash Rabbah = great Midrashīm, Sadducees, Sifra (Halakhic midrash to Book of Leviticus), Sifrē - Sifre - Sifrei, Sōpher - Sopher (pl. Sōpherīm - Sopherim) (Jew. scholar + scribe), Tanḥūma = Midrash Tanhuma (col. of Pentateuch aggadot), Tannāīm = Tannaim or Tanaim (pl. fr. tanna) = Jewish scholars, Torat Kohanim (instructions of the priests), Uniformity, Wayyiqra - Wayyiqro = Parashat Vayikra, Yalqūṭ Mekhīrī = Yalqut Mekhiri (aggadic comp.), Yalqūṭ Shimʽōnī = Yalkut Shimoni (aggadic compi. on books of Hebr. Bible), Yəhūḏā haNāsī = Judah ha-Nasī = Judah I | 15 Comments

Last episode we ended by the 2nd century and spoke about a period which followed the later canonical books, not only was translation, and therefore exegesis, cultivated, by Elders and their pupils that form the starting-point of the next series, the Tannāīm, who occupy the first two centuries of this common era. Mishnah By this […]

Hebrew Language #5 Hebrew Literature #2 Torah, Apocryphal literature and Targum

11 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible or Holy Scriptures, History, Language | tagged 2° Century, 3° Century, 4° Century BCE, 5° Century, 7° Century, Apocrypha, Apocryphal literature, Aramaic Literature, Aramaic vernacular, Arthur Ernest Cowley, Ben Sira = Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira = Yeshua Ben Sirach, Canonical books, Deuterocanonical books, Hebrew Literature, Jews, Jonathan ben Uzziel, Meghillōth = Five Megillot, Mishnah (Mishna), Old Testament, Palestinian Targum = Targum Yerushalmi, Sacred writings, Services of the synagogue, Targum of Onkelos, Targum on Chronicles, Targum on Esther, Targum on Job, Targum on Proverbs, Targum on the Prophets = Targum on the Nevi'im, Targum on the Psalms, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, Torah, Twelve Patriarchs | 17 Comments

Apocryphal Hebrew literature It is not to be supposed that all the contents of the Old Testament were immediately accepted as sacred, or that they were ever all regarded as being on the same level. The Torah, the Law delivered to Moses, held among the Apocryphal literature.Jews of the 4th century B.C.E. as it holds […]

Hebrew Language #2 The name “Hebrew” and Speech of Canaan

6 Jun 2022 · by Guestspeaker | in Bible Study, Faith, History, Language, World | tagged 10° Century, 1° Century, 1° Century BCE, 4° Century BCE, 5° century BCE, 7° Century, Arabic language, Aramaic, Aramaisms, Arthur Ernest Cowley, Ashkenazi Jews, Dispersion of the Jews, Eastern Aramaic, Egyptian Aramaic papyri, Ephraimites, Hebrew, Hebrew language, Hebrew palaeography, Israelites, Massorah = Masorah or Mesorah, Mishnah (Mishna), Mishnaic Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Moorish dominion, Moors - Moorish, Nabatean(s), New Hebrew, Old Testament, Palestinian(s), People of Palestine, Persian Empire, Philistine language, Philology, Poenulus of Plautus, Primitive Semitic speech, Rabbinical Hebrew, Semitic Languages, Semitic speech, Sephardi Jews, Spain, Speech of Ashdod, Speech of Canaan, Stele of Mesha, Talmud, Targum, Western Aramaic, Yisra’elī = Israelite | 19 Comments

Arthur Ernest Cowley looking at Hebrew speech and writing.

Retrieving some older articles previously placed on Multiply

25 Nov 2014 · by Bijbelvorsers | in Announcement, History | tagged Book of books, Doctrines, Fundamentalism, Greek Scriptures, Hebrew Scriptures, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jihad, Mishnah (Mishna), Mistaken identity, MSN Groups, MSN Messenger, MSN Spaces, Multiply, Namechange, Norway, Preachers, Preservation of peace, Retribution of death, Silencing, Talmud, Transformation, Windows Live Spaces | 5 Comments

A few years back, on the MSN Groups I wrote some articles and responded to certain articles of others. Hereof there is nothing to find back. Even from the Messenger or Microsoft Life and MSN Spaces (Windows Live Spaces) there is nothing but from the subsequent transferee Multiply I did have some postings. What happened […]

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