Hebrewist

English Etymology From en Hebrew ist. Noun A scholar who is expert in the Hebrew language. en 1856 A Review of two sermons on the mode of Christian Baptism William Grant 13 According to Gerenius, the world renowned Hebrewist and Lexicographer, the word translated sprinkle, signifies “to spout up,” and then to sprinkle, as the result. en 1870 A Gallery of Distinguished Men Edward Barrass 91 Ho was among, the best of the Hebrewists, and unequalled in his knowledge of pure theology, a skilful Biblical critic, and well versed in the sacred lore — ancient, scholastic, and modern. en 1940 Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal Lee Max Friedman Stiles, the ardent Hebrewist, as President of Yale, became a potent propagandist for Hebrew study and learning. en 2000 After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy Sanford F. Schram 226 For an explication of the ethic of alterity as offered by the Hebrewist, philosopher, and literary theorist Emmanuel Levinas, see Shapiro, Violent Cartographies, pp. 171–209. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Hebrew. en 1848 Melbourne Punch 99 He granted her request at once, and enfranchised the bonded Hebrewists. en 1918 The Dial - Volume 65 620 The battle between the Hebrewists and the Yiddishists goes merrily on, and ink flows as freely in the columns as blood but lately did on the battle fields of Europe. en 2013 Black Jews in Africa and the Americas Tudor Parfitt 112 In addition to these more-or-less normative Jews, there are two further categories: the “Hebrewists,” who view themselves as pre-Talmudic Jews on the grounds that their ancestors maintained Hebraic traditions, and the “Sabbatherians,” who number more than two million and who practice a kind of Judaism while including Christian elements. Adjective Pertaining to the Hebrew people, language, or culture. en 1904 Sunday the Seventh Day Frederick Joseph Spencer 25 We know that even among the Hebrewist tribes that when thiertheir Temple was captured by Pompey B.C. 63, that that Sabbath was afterwards observed as a great fast day. en 2000 The Middle East, Abstracts and Index - Volume 25, Part 1 568 Israeli Druze intellectuals do, as the end-product of the Hebrewist system, attempt the role of observers — and hopefully mediators — in the no-man's land between the Jewish-Hebrew and Sunni-centered Palestinian peoples en 2004 Popular Music and National Culture in Israel Regev Motti; Motti Regev; Edwin Seroussi 20 Viewed by the Hebrewist cultural establishment through its European “orientalist” prism (in Said's 1978 connotation), oriental Jews were perceived as premodern and “primitive.” en 2014 Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History Assaf Shelleg 94 Yet it was these figures who challenged Hebrewist paradigms (and in turn a nationally committed musical historiography) by syncretizing modernist importations with Palestine's non-Western (and mostly Jewish) soundscapes. en People