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I am seeking evidence that formal language planning works. Classical instances might be Hebrew and Afrikaans. I would be most grateful for research papers which provide solid evidence of the effective impact of language planning on language ecologies. I am interested in large-scale political interventions rather than changes within micro-environments. The nature and quality of the evidence supporting claims of language-planning efficacy is obviously crucial.
Language plans abound, but I would be most grateful to be pointed in the direction of data which shows that these plans have worked as intended.
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Is not the term anti-Semitic, as it is used today to refer to bigotry against Jews, used loosely and erroneously? “Anti-Semitic” literally and technically means being opposed to someone who speaks a Semitic language (e.g. Arabic and Hebrew). My question is: why then was the term “anti-Semitic” coined in 19th century Germany to refer – rather confusingly – to a phenomenon of hatred of Jews in Europe who, however, did not speak a Semitic language at the time? Do we know with any certainty and rigour how much knowledge of philology and linguistics Wilhelm Marr, the German writer who coined the term “anti-Semitic” in 1879, had?
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The University of Bristol has sacked David Miller, a sociology professor who was accused of making antisemitic comments...
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Where can I find an authoritative current covid vaccine efficacy table stratified by age and vaccination status for a large/well-studied population - e.g. Israel or the US or UK?
This is the best source I can find, and I'm not happy with it. I've tried to view the underlying sources, but I can't read Hebrew, google and Safari translate don't work, and immediate source is a freelance journalist. http://twitter.com/IvoryHecker/status/1423447625844633604
Everything else seems to be cherry picked or hearsay.
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Autherative Covid_19 vaccine pill enters Clinical trials research professionals news in dfferent localities among them Israel,India for more details see the attached reference:
https:// www .research professional newa.com>
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Hi Everyone,
I am searching for some book or dictionary which contains Jewish-Hebrew religious terms along with their Arabic and English meanings and transliteration.
Can anyone help me?
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كتاب رائع اتمنى الحصول على نسخة منه
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I am looking into the connections between old Hebrew and Himyarite languages. (Old Saba'ai civilization). Can anyone refer me to resources on older variations of the Hebrew language?
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I came across reference to the above recently in the world history of a Dutch writer and I was aghast as archaeological research has been going on in present day Israel for over a hundred years and no evidence for this famed polity has emerged, except for occasional finds in the Shephelah. Assessments of Jerusalem continue to insist it was little more than a village and many of the urban sites claimed in Judaic writings as belonging to this supposed early Hebrew empire seem culturally Philistine or Canaanite.
I have elsewhere theorised that the stories were fabricated after the defeat of Judea, never more than a secondary power in the region, by Assyria and Babylon, the crushing and annihilation of the Kingdom of Israel based in Samaria, in order to assuage such overwhelming defeats.
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I agree with Barry Turner.
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Dear Israeli students and researchers,
You are invited to post your studies on the subreddit for surveys/studies in Hebrew (for free):
Hopefully this website may become a useful resource for students.
Cheers!
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People are also welcome to post studies in English for Israeli participants on the website.
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A ten-plague tradition is mentioned in the Exodus narrative but seven-plague traditions are mentioned in the Psalms (78/105). Why? Another seven-plague schema is found in Amos 4:6-11 though not explicitly related to Exodus plagues. In the later literature, ten-plague schemas are mentioned in the Apocalypse of Abraham, the Book of Jubilees, and Philo's retelling of the Egyptian plagues where as seven-plague schemas are mentioned in Artapanus, Wisdom of Solomon, Testament of Benjamin, and Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. And the New Testament Apocalypse applies the 'seven' schemas over against the established 'ten' framework as well regarding the Exodus-like judgments. Why? Which preceded what in time? Which was original? Ten or seven? Were there exodus traditions older than the Pentateuchal 'ten' tradition? Is 'ten' developed from the fusion of the older sevens? How can we argue for it?
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There are many topics mentioned in the 27 Psalms you reference, and just because every single one of the ten plagues are not mentioned does not mean that there is a discrepancy. The Psalms are poetic and are an artists method of praising God, retelling parts of history, and prophesying. Thus they are not always complete in the information presented due to the nature of putting words to music. As for Amos 4:6-11, those were plagues dealt to Israel and not Egypt. As for the book of Revelation, there are actually 14 plagues when you consider both the trumpet and bowl plagues. There are also additional plagues found in the seven seals. Though some of them will be similar to what Egypt experienced, nothing in the Bible says that there must be an exact match to everything that God does or will do. There are many types that portray future and past events, but it is not always precise in every detail. In addition, the books that you mentioned such as "Apocalypse of Abraham, the Book of Jubilees, Philo's retelling of the Egyptian plagues, Artapanus, Wisdom of Solomon, Testament of Benjamin, and Greek Apocalypse of Baruch" are part of the pseudepigrapha which are spurious works that cannot be trusted. I hope this helps.
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Part of my researsh works are in Russian and Hebrew.
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Many of the RG members add their works in Russian, Arab, Hebrew, Spain, Italian and other languages. But it would be better if you add your texts also in English translation. My best regards to you!
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From former researches, I knew Majorcan Jews dealt with gold from Sudan and that a Jewish community was living in the desert (they were mentioned in the Cresques map, appearing as a coma on the desert highway). From my Balearic island of Formentera, I could not go on further. But, promoting my historical work about Algiers on Algerian History Forums, this amazing Latin 1447 letter popped up, conserved in La Genizah’s archives, the great synagogue from El Cairo, because it contains the name of God in Hebrew (la Genizah’s archives collects all the texts that mention the name of God in Hebrew). It’s Antonio Malfante, Genovese merchant in Majorca in 1447, on the track of Majorcan Jews, looking for the lost Jewish tribes in Touat desert. Can any Latinist help me to translate the letter? Touat-en.docx is an article I wrote for Diario de Mallorca but wasn’t published.
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touat-en is a 4 pages text but if you have time, I'll be very pleased to read your review.
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I have written you several times asking whether you were interested in a paper reporting an innovative instrumental study of the oral performance of Mediaeval Hebrew poetry poetry, but received no answer, I would appreciate If some time you answered my query.
Reuven Tsur
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Decidedly not my area of expertise, which is the 19th c. novel and Victorian illustration.
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This scroll concerns the events regarding the desecration of the second temple by Antiochus Epiphanes.
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Dear Directors of project:
I have written numerous codes of ethics in various areas of
professions and organizations. They are mostly in Hebrew.
Is here any possibility of incorporating our work with into your project?
Thanks in advance for your attention and cooperation.
Asa Kasher
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Dear Kelly Laas:
Thank you for your prompt answer.
I would be delighted to send you codes I wrote. Where there is a
translation into English I will add it. I will add a brief explanation to
each of the codes. (If you have a form of describing codes, I will use it..)
With best regards,
Asa Kasher
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Anything along the lines of tolerance toward other people's views, liberalism or anything related. Preferably if anyone has a measure that has been translated to Hebrew. Thank you.
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Thank you!
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Reading the Greek Orthodox or Ethiopian text, we understand that this women after becoming Pauls student, she also taught with him. In Greece and other places Paul taught there are temples and churches in her honor, yet the Cannon writers thought to leaver her out. I am amazed at how much was taught and believed before the male centric writers removed the deeds of so many women.
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Yes, something I wrote about in a dissertation years ago. She was his colleague. But also the evidence suggests that women were extremely important in both setting up and ensuring the survival of the early church. These were usually based in homes (Martha and Mary) and, I suggest, run or overseen by women, who after all were, more so then men, prominent in homes. There is also the later Donatist martyr who similarly appears to have been dominant, but in North Africa.
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In the current literature there are two prevalent answers: during the Hasmonean dynasty (164 to 63 BCE) and at the Council of Jamnia (90 CE). Do you agree with either position or take a third alternative?
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There are several correct answers to this. The original consonantal text probably assumed its current form somewhere towards 400BC. This is an estimate based mainly on the date of the Dead Sea scrolls. However, the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew text from around 250BC, differs in places from our received text. Our received text dates from roughly 150AD and is called the Masoretic text., when Jewish scholars went through the consonantal text and added diacritical vowel sounds, which was sometimes purely based on there preferred interpretation of the text. this was the text Jerome used when he translated the bible into Latin.
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When I use the dictionary such as Wilhelm Gesenius (Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon) and Marcus Jastrow (Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature) I have difficulty in understanding the differences between the Syriac and Aramaic. Is there a clear-cut between these languages or are they approximately the same thing?
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Any sort of relationship? Positive, Negative, Neutral? There's nothing we can do from this angle?
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Suicide is a relatively wide-spread feature of Indian religions. The soldiers of Alexander (the Great) were impressed to see the Indian Kalanos taking his own life in fire. Kalanos was probably a Brahmin, and not the only Brahmin who resorted to this way of ending his life (JB, How the Brahmins Won, Brill 2016, p. 34 ff.; Patrick Olivelle, “Ritual suicide and the rite of renunciation”, https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/files/1243833). Jainism has always known and highly respected the practice of sallekhanā, which is a way of taking one’s own life through fasting (and which Jainas refuse to call ‘suicide’). Buddhism knows the tradition of burning one’s own body as an act of religious fervour (JB, “Buddhism and sacrifice”, http://my.unil.ch/serval/document/BIB_1971EA20C16A.pdf). Hinduism has known instruments allowing devotees to decapitate themselves without the help of outsiders (Sudyka, Lidia (2014): “The Chejarla temple myth revisited: self-decapitation in medieval Andhra.” Indologica Taurinensia 40, 318-340). So plenty of relationships between religion and suicide, at least in South Asia.
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As part of a book, I am tracing the evolution of Aramaic and Hebrew from their respective roots.  Phoenician is believed to be the mother alphabet, but paleo-Hebrew evolved from Phoenician, as did Aramaic, but then Hebrew square script evolved from Aramaic.  The question I am asking is how Aramaic evolved from Phoenician in such a way as to be a sufficiently different script that the Hebrew script that in turn evolved from it is so different.
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Not so sure about the script, but the language that led to the script the hebrew and Aramaic preceded the Phonetician.
Also per The TD Chronology the Phonetians may have picked up their script from the proto Hebrew script from Shevet (Tribe) Dan.
See Edenics.org on the language/etymological origins.
Also ou.org Jewish action magazine article that backs our ksav ashurit was a revived script, and not a more recent script,  as is the current conventional western understanding
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I am interested in meanings other than 'peace'.
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leshalem also means to pay, sometimes in the sense of a paying a tribute.
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Are there language identification tools and NLP for Hebrew and Aramaic? I am aware of MILA and HebMorph, but they are implemented only for modern Hebrew and not for earlier stages of the language. Thank you!
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Eric Ringger and his students at Brigham Young University have done a lot of work on Syriac (see http://cpart.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/home/sec/about/ for some info).