English Hebraica

Chronicling Jewish and Jewish themed writing in the English language prior to the 19th century. Interesting biographies, diagrams, translations, transliterations and descriptions of Jewish learning and theology from primary sources.

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Rashi script* and other Hebrew examples in Pantographia from 1799

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Over at the Main Line I posted about a beautiful book called Pantographia ; containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the wo...
Monday, July 23, 2007

A rationalist 19th century British interpretation of a Talmudic oracle

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Being that we are on the eve of Tisha B'av, I thought it would be interesting to see an interpretation, or rather reinterpretation, of a...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

Lonely tefillin in an Indian mound.

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One day in 1815 Captain Joseph Merrick of Pittsfield, Massachusets plowed his field on his farm, built on what had been called "Indian ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

On the Pinner Talmud: Chasam Sofer, the Czar, Shadal and little known Big Ideas.

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Part of the story of the Pinner Talmud is here . This edition, from 1842, was a translation project undertaken by Dr. Ephraim Moses Pinner (...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Unexpected Recanati quote in a 17th century English Hebraica publication.

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This little booklet from 1647 is basically a compendium of Biblical Hebrew synoyms transliterated into Latin characters, with the occasional...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

'Pardes,' from a 'Talmud Babylonicum' introduction: complete with a gaping anachronism.

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In the October 1867 issue of the British periodical the Quarterly Review appeared an article called "Talmud Babylonicum," which me...
Thursday, March 29, 2007

Wacky Hebrew etymologies

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From a review of the 1837 Complete Hebrew and English Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary by William L. Roy: Take a look, particularly, at ...
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