Hebraist

Milton, for instance, despite being a "serious Hebraist" in his reading of, and about, the Old Testament, had harsh attitudes toward actual Jews.

Oh, to Be In England Steven Amarnick 2011

His interest in the movement may have attracted the attention of the noted Christian Hebraist Johann Christoph Wagenseil (1633 – 1705), Professor of Hebraica at the Lutheran University at Altdorf, who employed Jews and converts as translators and informants in his Hebraist enterprise.

Bella Perlhefter. 2009

Havvah Shapiro entered the "Garden of Eden" — the world of Hebrew learning and literature — under the tutelage of her parents and went on to become a prolific female Hebraist, with over fifty published articles to her credit.

Havvah Shapiro. 2009

Her father, Anshel Fogel, who died in the 1930s, was a Hebraist, the director of the Baron de Hirsch school in Burshtyn and later of the Lwów (Lemberg) Jewish orphanage.

Dvoyre Fogel. 2009

Her hasidic great-great grandfather, Rabbi Phinehas ben Abraham Abba Shapiro Korets (1726 – 1791), would no doubt have disapproved of Shapiro, who became an accomplished and prolific female Hebraist.

Havvah Shapiro. 2009

Anna G. Sherman was one of the unsung heroes of the Hebraist movement in the United States.

Anna G. Sherman. 2009

Her father, Leib, an educator and Hebraist, “imbued her with a deep attachment to Jewish life and learning,” teaching both Shulamite and her sister, Judith, “respect for the thinking life.”

Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America. 2009

One of the unsung heroes of the Hebraist movement in the United States, Anna Sherman for forty years taught Hebrew — and used language instruction to inculcate Jewish identity — at the extension schools of the Jewish Theological Seminary Teachers Institute.

Anna G. Sherman. 2009

Nina Salaman was a well-regarded Hebraist, known especially for her translations of medieval Hebrew poetry, at a time when Jewish scholarship in Europe was a male preserve.

Nina Ruth Davis Salaman. 2009

Liege, a learned Jesuit, profound theologian, and accomplished historian, was famous as a Hebraist and lecturer on Holy Writ.

The Land of Midian 2003