Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0021
Adel Shakour, Adel Abdallah Tarabeih
{"title":"Arabic Influences in the Spoken Hebrew of Emile Habibi","authors":"Adel Shakour, Adel Abdallah Tarabeih","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article examines the Arabic influence on the spoken Hebrew of the writer Emile Habibi, focusing on both the lexical and syntactical effects. The article includes background information on the status of Hebrew among Israeli Arabs and on the linguistic contact between Arabic and Hebrew. Methodologically, the article contributes to the teaching of the general topic, \"The linguistic contact between Hebrew and Arabic in the state of Israel\" as it presents a broad background to the status of Hebrew language in Israeli Arab society. The article also contributes specifically to teaching the topic, \"bilingualism in Israeli Arab society.\"","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"419 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83702669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0013
Safwat Marzouk
{"title":"Migration in the Joseph Narrative: Integration, Separation, and Transnationalism","authors":"Safwat Marzouk","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Building on recent scholarship that reads the Joseph narrative (Genesis 37–50) as a Diaspora narrative, this essay seeks to unpack some of the cross-cultural relations between the migrant agents (Joseph and his brothers) and the host community (the Egyptians). The essay focuses on the cross-cultural matrices of integration, separation, and transnationality. These relationships between the migrant and the host communities is shaped by the openness of the host community and the ability of the migrants to negotiate power with the existing social and economic systems of their country of destination. Through a close reading of Genesis 41; 46:31–37:4, and 50:1–14, and by way of drawing insights from sociological studies of migration, I will show not only that the Joseph narrative advocates that life can be prosperous in the Diaspora, but also that the Joseph narrative suggests that integration into a foreign country is possible, and it can happen while forming a distinct identity, which in turn allows for the migrant community to live in a transnational mode, that is, it integrates into the host community, while maintaining ties with its home culture.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"71 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83900975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0022
Megan E. Warner
{"title":"\"You Shall Not Do As They Do in the Land of Egypt\": Joseph and the Perils of Uber-Assimilation As Response To Involuntary Migration","authors":"Megan E. Warner","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper considers the Joseph novella through the lens of trauma, exploring an apparent disconnect between Joseph's experience of involuntary migration and his meteoric rise to power once in Egypt. It begins with a focus on Genesis 39, as the place where Joseph's vulnerability, post-trafficking, is most clearly reflected. It then goes on to explore how the application of trauma theory, as a heuristic tool, suggests other places in the narrative where the impact of trauma might be recognised. A focus on patterns of compulsive repetition and inversion in the narrative leads into the beginnings of a trauma-focussed critique of the exodus and conquest traditions. The main body of the argument is book-ended with an account of recent developments in the Australian responses to asylum seekers arriving by boat/people-smuggling that point to similar patterns of repetition and inversion.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"43 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81698602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0024
L. Kahn, S. Yampolskaya
{"title":"Diversity in Numbers: A Linguistic Analysis of Numerals in Maskilic Hebrew","authors":"L. Kahn, S. Yampolskaya","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article constitutes the first linguistic analysis of Maskilic Hebrew numerals. While it is commonly believed that Maskilic Hebrew exhibited a normative grammatical structure based largely on the biblical standard, examination of Maskilic texts reveals a much more diverse reality including elements of Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval, and later Hebrew, as well as Yiddish and German, a reflection of the authors' rich linguistic background. The article explores the intriguing ways in which these different elements manifest themselves in Maskilic Hebrew numeral morphosyntax and usage. It analyses the key features of the numeral system drawing on examples from prominent Maskilic Hebrew texts of various fiction and nonfiction genres. These features include the avoidance of the dual in favor of the plural with the numeral [inline-graphic 01] 'two' (e.g., [inline-graphic 02] 'two years'); word order with basic and compound numerals (e.g., [inline-graphic 03] versus [inline-graphic 04] 'three days'; [inline-graphic 05] versus [inline-graphic 06] 'twenty five'); equalization of polar agreement (e.g., [inline-graphic 07] 'four princes' and [inline-graphic 08] 'six ships'); the use of the absolute and construct forms with numerals (e.g., [inline-graphic 09] 'the five months'); the use of ordinals to indicate hours (e.g., [inline-graphic 10] 'at four o'clock'); and the use of the German ordinal markers [inline-graphic 11]- and [inline-graphic 12]- to indicate dates (e.g., [inline-graphic 13] 20 [inline-graphic 14] 'on the twentieth of September'). The article provides a diachronic perspective on these Maskilic Hebrew features by examining their relationship with earlier forms of the language as well as with Modern Hebrew.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"389 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79660066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0011
Mendel Kranz
{"title":"Postcolonial Zionism: Theological-Political Paradigms in Levinas and Memmi","authors":"Mendel Kranz","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper tracks the shifting articulations of Judaism as it emerges in France in the latter half of the twentieth century—a France that is still contending with the Shoah and already deep within the throes of decolonization. This historical moment, I suggest, offers a particularly illuminating window through which to understand how the figure of the Jew is established, paradoxically, inside and outside of Europe, as many Jewish thinkers contended with their own unique position vis-à-vis France's colonial apparatus, the decolonial struggles that emerged across North Africa, and their support for the State of Israel. Through a historical and textual comparison of Albert Memmi and Emmanuel Levinas, the paper illuminates the theological-political paradigms in which they were theorizing the position of the Jew. Though very different thinkers in approach and idiom, it tracks how their work negotiates the particularities of Judaism in the colonial and postcolonial context and how that intersected with their approach to Zionism, to which they both maintained strong, if somewhat tendentious relationships. By situating their relationship to Zionism and colonialism within a broader set of questions concerning the position of Jewish difference in a postcolonial world, the paper highlights the complicated co-emergence of Zionism and decolonization and the particular tensions they exerted on their thought.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"293 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84255871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0006
Serge Frolov, Mikhail S. Stetckevich
{"title":"Repentance in Judges: Assessing the Reassessment","authors":"Serge Frolov, Mikhail S. Stetckevich","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over against the tendency of many recent studies and commentaries to maintain that Israel's deliverance in Judges is exclusively a function of divine grace, the present article argues that the terminology used by the biblical text and especially its literary structure single out the people's repentance—expressed in renunciation of foreign worship—as a major soteriological factor.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"55 1","pages":"129 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74741362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0005
Idit Einat-Nov
{"title":"Believe It or Not: A Literary Examination of the Banquet Scene in Joseph Ibn Zabara's The Book of Delight","authors":"Idit Einat-Nov","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper proposes a new reading of the banquet scene in Joseph Ibn Zabara's The Book of Delight. This reading derives from the hypothesis that this art of storytelling is based on a poetic principle of uncertainty, and is therefore associated with the various forms of the ambiguous and the ambivalent and the qualities that are typically associated with them—a sense of confusion and disorientation and an inability to decide among contradictory insights or emotional responses. As I have argued elsewhere about other rhymed Hebrew stories, this approach is appropriate to the character of some of the most fascinating rhymed stories produced in medieval Hebrew literature. The paper will describe the poetic devices which are used in this scene for the purpose of creating the jolting effect of uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"339 1","pages":"375 - 387"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76307412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0025
Nissim Amzallag, Shamir Yona
{"title":"A New Meaning of [inline-graphic 01] in Biblical Hebrew: Evidence from the Theological Conflict in Isaiah 33:14","authors":"Nissim Amzallag, Shamir Yona","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Isaiah 33:14 is interpreted here as expressing the crux of a bitter controversy between a salvation theology, defended by Isaiah, and a contemplative approach of YHWH that denies all targeted divine intervention, defended by Isaiah's opponents. In this conflict, Isa 33:14 quotes opponents who mock Isaiah and his followers for their theological position by asking sarcastically who is capable of kindling the divine fire on earth, with which it may be transformed into a weapon for use against a specific target. This interpretation yields a new meaning of the verbal root [inline-graphic 02] twice expressed in this verse. The fiery context of meaning of [inline-graphic 03], and of its derivatives in many Semitic languages, support both the interpretation of [inline-graphic 04] as \"to kindle a fire\" in Biblical Hebrew and the antiquity of this semantic field in West Semitic languages.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"175 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82226510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0023
A. Wineman
{"title":"Metamorphoses of the Hidden Light Motif in Jewish Texts","authors":"A. Wineman","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The motif of the Hidden Light ([inline-graphic 01]), which has a home in rabbinic interpretation of the biblical creation-account, underwent some very significant metamorphoses over time.In the Zohar, the older theme of a great light which had been withdrawn and hidden became assimilated to a more universal concept of a primordial light upon which existence itself depends. Such a conception, voiced significantly in Sufi philosophy, flatly negated any possibility of a withdrawal of the Light.Over time, the motif later became assimilated to another motif, the garments-of-Adam, one found already in the Zohar but having much older roots. It was thought that with the sin of the first couple, their soul-like being was removed and in its place they received materially-oriented physical bodies. Their lost state-of-being came to be associated with the Hidden Light, the re-appearance of which would occur only in some future messianic transformation.Hasidism, in turn, tended to identify the Hidden Light as a deeper understanding of the Torah and the sense of a spiritual depth underlying all existence, a possibility in the present. In effect, Hasidism viewed itself as a reclamation of the Hidden Light.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":"323 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76633155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hebrew StudiesPub Date : 2019-11-27DOI: 10.1353/hbr.2019.0008
J. Hoyt
{"title":"Discourse Analysis of Prophetic Oracles: Woe, Indictment, and Hope","authors":"J. Hoyt","doi":"10.1353/hbr.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hbr.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Discourse analysis of the emic structures of Biblical Hebrew is an underdeveloped area of Hebrew linguistics. This lack of a linguistic examination has resulted in Hebrew scholars relying upon form criticism, which, though helpful, is lacking in objectivity and precision. This paper offers a discourse analysis of three prophetic oracle types: woe, indictment, and hope. Through a modified approach to Longacre's etic discourse structures, this paper examines the oracles' emic structures within Amos and Micah. Not only does this analysis provide a more objective process and more precise criteria for identifying genres than form criticism, but it also reveals otherwise overlooked discourse features such as skewing and peak marking elements, which are all necessary to more fully understand the intended purpose and function of the oracles.","PeriodicalId":35110,"journal":{"name":"Hebrew Studies","volume":"148 1","pages":"153 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78134984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}