Connecting Sacred and Mundane: From Bilingualism to Hermeneutics in Hebrew Epitaphs

Gravestones with Hebrew inscriptions are the most common class of Jewish monuments still present in such regions as Ukraine or Belarus. Epitaphs are related to various Biblical, Rabbinical, and liturgical texts. Despite that, the genre of Hebrew epitaphs seldom becomes an object of cultural or liter...

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Main Author: Nosonovsky Michael
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-06-01
Series:Studia Humana
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/sh-2017-0013