hebrewist

plural hebrewists

1. alternativeAlternative form of Hebrewist.

   Wilhelm Schickard (1592—1635), Professor at Tubingen, hebrewist and mathematician;

   1970, Wilhelmus Rood, Comenius and the Low Countries, page 44

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   There is nothing more wanting to his glory, than to force a French hebrewist to be silent; and I will surely be so, if, as I doubt not, he alledges to me such solid reasons as those he has made use of to destroy the English hebrewist.

   1772, George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review - Volume 47, page 246

   Dermott gave a full account of how it happened: The free masons arms in the upper part of the frontispiece of this book, was found in the collection of the famous and learned hebrewist, architect and brother, Rabbi Jacob Jehudah Leon.

   1986, Roy A. Wells, The Rise and Development of Organised Freemasonry

plural Hebrewists

1. A scholar who is expert in the Hebrew language.

   Stiles, the ardent Hebrewist, as President of Yale, became a potent propagandist for Hebrew study and learning.

   1940, Lee Max Friedman, Rabbi Haim Isaac Carigal

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   According to Gerenius, the world renowned Hebrewist and Lexicographer, the word translated sprinkle, signifies “to spout up,” and then to sprinkle, as the result.

   1856, William Grant, A Review of two sermons on the mode of Christian Baptism, page 13

   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.

   1870, Edward Barrass, A Gallery of Distinguished Men, page 91

   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.

   2000, Sanford F. Schram, After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy, page 226

2. A member or descendant of a Semitic people claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; Hebrew.

   He granted her request at once, and enfranchised the bonded Hebrewists.

   1848, Melbourne Punch, page 99

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   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.

   1918, The Dial - Volume 65, page 620

   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.

   2013, Tudor Parfitt, Black Jews in Africa and the Americas, page 112

comparative more Hebrewist · superlative most Hebrewist

1. Pertaining to the Hebrew people, language, or culture.

   Viewed by the Hebrewist cultural establishment through its European “orientalist” prism (in Said's 1978 connotation), oriental Jews were perceived as premodern and “primitive.”

   2004, Regev Motti, Motti Regev, Edwin Seroussi, Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, page 20

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   We know that even among the Hebrewist tribes that when thier^([sic – meaning their]) Temple was captured by Pompey B.C. 63, that that Sabbath was afterwards observed as a great fast day.

   1904, Frederick Joseph Spencer, Sunday the Seventh Day, page 25

   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

   2000, The Middle East, Abstracts and Index - Volume 25, Part 1, page 568

   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.

   2014, Assaf Shelleg, Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History, page 94