Hebrew at the Crossroads of Cultures. From Outgoing Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Orbis Supplementa)

By Haiim B. Rosén. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Hebrew at the Crossroads of Cultures: From Outgoing Antiquity to the Middle Ages / Haiim B. Rosén......Page 1 Foreword......Page 4 Table of Contents......Page 6 A. The linguistic nature of Jewish Palestine......Page 8 B. Languages of use and usage of languages......Page 10 C. Formal and sociological phenomena of language, contact........Page 16 A. The social position of the Jews and the sociolinguistic status of their language usage......Page 26 B. Hebraisms in the language of the Jews of Rome......Page 29 C. Probable instances of the penetration of Greek elements of Jewish usage into Vulgar Latin......Page 31 D. Internal Latin semantic development of probable Jewish origin .......Page 38 A. Background......Page 44 B. "Peace"......Page 45 C. "Holiness, sanctity"......Page 50 A. The concept of a Traditionssprache: Medieval Latin and Medieval Hebrew......Page 58 B. The evidence for the regional differentiation of Hebrew......Page 64 C. Hebrew in the Romance region......Page 67 D. The German model: Verbal periphrasis......Page 75 E. Outlook......Page 78 Map: Palestine at the turn of the eras......Page 80 Indices......Page 82