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The traditional rendering “grace” for חֵן is controversial. Frame semantics, a theory originating in cognitive linguistics, anticipates that prototypical situations are evoked in language users’ minds ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Established in 1889, the Jewish Quarterly Review (JQR) is the oldest English-language journal in the fields of Jewish studies.

Aviya Kushner tells us in her “The Grammar of God,” an interesting and informative book, that readers of the Hebrew Bible who do not know Hebrew and read only a translation will generally not know ...

A small peasant village in northern China seems an unlikely birthplace for a Judaic studies scholar and Hebrew language buff. But then again, Yan Wang never anticipated how far he would travel on his ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

The Israeli poet Yona Wallach memorably wrote that “Hebrew is a sex maniac.” Wallach, who died in 1985, was no stranger to attention-grabbing subjects: One of her poems discusses sex with tefillin.

As a school child, I hated dikduk – biblical grammar. I remember the head-scratcher Ms. Korach taught us about personal ...