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Hebrew Was the V o,,,,olie
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figured more largely than Hebrew menuof the language in 21
After the Revolutionary War
From the first, in 1636, the date hours.
education generally was shifted
of its founding, to the Revolu-
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Harvard students spend
from a religious to a political
tionary War, the Puritans were day a week for three years one
on
able to indulge a repressed de- Hebrew and allied tonguea. The basis. Yet at the time of the
sire for more and better Hebrew, principle text used was the Bible Revolution there were some who
By TINA LEVITAN
after founding a college of their in its original form. About 12 advocated that the country aban-
uEBRF.W IS thousands of years old, yet it is 'very much alive own.
copies, with students' inscrip- don English and adopt Hebrew as
It was the desire to understand lions upon them from the years the cehii le of speech.
by
AL today. The language of the Bible is being spoken today not only / the Scriptures that drove the stn- 10a1 to 1746, are extant.
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Throughout the .:ng night of trates "ba'ale nefresh". (men of /
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ROSH HASHONAH
and the ministers "hasi-!
FROM THE VERY DAN'S of its
ways remined alive even if not dim harishonim", (first pious'
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founding Yale University in-
spoken,
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men), while John Winthrop, who L
eluded Hebrew as one of the re- GREETINGS
Jews wrote commentaries with- was governor of the Massachu-1
quired subects. To this day the
out number on the Bible and Tal- setts colony was called "Nehe-
Hebraic influence can be seen on
mud in Hebrew.
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!alias Americanus," the American
the seal of the University which
[gay ( ail
Problems of philosophy, phy- Nehemiah after Nehemiah who
carries the Hebrew words "Uri
stcs, mathematics, algebra, ge: adminstered / the Hebrews in
Vethurnim" which was the in-
ometry, medicine, astronomy, Palestine when they returned
Flowers — Gifts
scription on the priestly breast-
; zoology. biology, as , veil as from exile in Babylonia.
' plate and means light and truth.
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Interest in Jewish studies in
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be found recorded in a mastered
Ezra Stiles, who became presi 1
THE STUDY of the Hebrew,
perfection of the Hebrew lang- language occupied a prominent
dent of the college in 1778. When!
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assume that only of recent times clergy the main profession for, OSCAR REGEN is president of fessor of ecclesiastical history,
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Hebrew again regaining some- which our earliest institutions of 1 the Israel Music Foundation, an Stiles voluntarily took upon him-
thing of the impor'tance it held higher education were founded, important cultural link between self the teaching of Semities.
many years back, when it was
It is intertsting to note that CI
New England could boast of a Israel and the rest of the world.
the language of the prophets.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia Penn-
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number of outstanding Hebrew The master recordings of the
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scholars among whom were John IMF are made in Israel, while sylvania, Brown, Princeton and
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Eliot, Increase and Cotton Mather, the remainder of the records Johns Hopkins are among the
United States collbges that have ' e
• TO BE SURE Eliezar be Ye- Williatn Bradford, John Dunster,
are pressed in the U.S.
been teaching Hebrew without'
hula and his followers coi ned
Stiles, I saac Addington.
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Ethan Allan Jose ph Green and c l ient to the pursuit first -o- f the interruption since their inception, !
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although like Latin and Greek
ioms, but the organic structure of Charles Chauncey, and several language
and later of the plul- the study of Hebrew fell off as
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the language remains intact. :
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others. Increase Mather delivered osophy. It was this heritage that the years went by in American 0
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Anyone with a sense of history discourses in Hebrew. His son the middle ages had bequeathededucation,
and language cannot but be Cotton wrote a relatively schol- to posterity. At Harvard, Hebrew ._______.
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on Hebrew was regarded as the key to the ;310, ;.:011LiefoX.E... 41> : soy. Gal:<•>. -!. *:, :•>,. <4iti,:•>„<f;,, ...31,
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sage spoken some 35 centuries
The prominent Puritan and men at Harvard began with He-
ago, today both spontaneously Ifehrew scholar, John Udall, brew.
The first text book was Wil-
and majestically roil off the translated Peter Marinius' He
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tongues of little Israeli children.'
Norman Sc Reuben Cottler• Props.
grammar, and compiled a helm Schikard's "Horologium Ile- 0
breum ," "The Hebrew Sun Dial," I: 13310 Dexter Blvd.
Hebrew never was a "thing Hebrew dictionary.
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of the past", shut up in old books
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and manuscripts, and to trace its of Plymouth
outh Pla nt ation," he ex-
history, and in particular in Co- presses his deep love for the He-
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Ionia] America, is an interesting brew language and reveals his:
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study. In early colonial America, knowledge of the Bible, The
Hebrew was a favorite subject of work lists 25 Biblical passages in
study and created quite a vogue.; the Hebrew original together
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Hebrew language was something includes a liebrew-English vo-
very living. It was an indispens- cabulary of several hundred
able tool to the trained ministers words.
of the time, but it was also a part
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THE BIBLE WAS the one
familiar book being read morn-
ing, neon, and night and every-
where its words kindled a spark-
ling enthusiasm. These early
colonists found in it a strong
analogy between themselves and
the Israelites - seeking freedom in
the Promised Land.
America was called "The
Promised Land," the Pilgrims
were referred to as "our happy
Israel in America". William
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