the story behind shavout jewish holiday

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HISTORY BEHIND HEBREW COMMUNITY

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Page 1: The Story Behind Shavout Jewish Holiday

HISTORY BEHIND HEBREW COMMUNITY

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Hebrew History Major Periods

Biblical or Classical • Until 3rd century BC• Most of the Old Testament

is written

Mishnaic or Rabbinic • Language of the Mishna:

collection of Jewish traditions

• Mishnaic Hebrew spoken Rabbinic Hebrew written

• 200 AD - 6th century ADMedieval • 6th - 13th century AD• Borrows Greek, Spanish,

Arabic words and from other languages

Haskala and Modern • Europe (1770-1880)• Language of Israel (1886 -

present)

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Revival of Hebrew• Based on biblical language• Innovations to meet modern needs• Only colloquial speech based on a written language• Pronunciation based on Sepharadic (Hispano-

Portuguese) Jews rather than Ashkenazi (East European) Jews

• Syntax based on that of the Mishna• Use of word three-consonants roots with vowels and

other consonants added k.t.v yields kotev (writes)• Written from right to left in a Semitic script of 22

letters

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Language policy of Israel TODAY

OFFICIALLANGUAGES

HEBREW ARABIC Semi-OfficialENGLISH

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Multilingualism in Israel

Israel is a complex, multilingual,

multicultural society !

A linguists Heaven!!!

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Messianic Jewish Bible Institute

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