Revolutionary Hebrew, Empire and Crisis: Four Peaks in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Survival

by David Aberbach

Hebrew has survived as a continuously written literature for nearly 3,000 years. It is the oldest, and in some ways most successful, minority literature. While Hebrew is central to the social history of the Jews, its history also offers a panoramic window into the relationships of other minority literatures to their majority cultures.
Until 1948, written Hebrew was created primarily under the rule of empires, notably those of ancient Mesopotamia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814706738
• ISBN13: 9780814706732
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"