Wilhelm Gesenius , 1786-1842, German Orientalist, one of the greatest Hebrew and biblical scholars. He is principally known for his Hebrew Grammar, which has been reedited so many times that it differs widely from his original. Perhaps his finest work was his biblical commentary. He was, in this, a moderate rationalist, and he aroused bitter opposition. He was one of the first to open Semitic to scientific study, because of his point of view that Hebrew and its sister languages were not sacrosanct, as most contemporary Christians thought them to be.
Bibliography: See E. F. Miller, The Influence of Gesenius on Hebrew Lexicography (1927).
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ON LANGUAGE; A Bad Week For Philologos
Forward; 1/28/2005; Philologos; 885 words;
... side dish,'" while Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's 33-volume German dictionary ... at my "Brown-Driver-Briggs Gesenius," which is "to be found in ... possess the Brown-Driver-Briggs Gesenius or the unabridged Liddell-Scott-Jon ... do have an 1867 Hebrew-Latin Gesenius and the abridged (at a mere ...
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Semitic linguistics in the new millennium.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; Kaye, Alan S.; 9689 words;
... scholars are discussed, among others: Ewald, Gesenius, Noldeke, Dillmann, Praetorius, Brockelmann ... the Biblical Aramaic (1907) (based on Wilhelm Gesenius' nineteenth-century lexicon). Wilhelm Gesenius and Frants Buhl, Hebraisches und Aramaisches ...
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(book review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2000; BODINE, WALTER R.; 1320 words;
... Ind.: EISENBRAUNS, 1998. Pp. xii + 269, maps, illus. $29.50. The author of this work ... bibliography is included (in which the Gesenius-Buhl dictionary should be moved to Canaanite ... Hildesheim: Olms, 1982. Buhl, Frants. 1921. Wilhelm Gesenius' Handworterbuch uber das Alte Testament ...
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"As Those Who Are Taught": The Interpretation of Isaiah from the LXX to the SBL
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2008; Kennedy, James; 1045 words;
... Sweeney reminds readers that the road to Duhm is as important as Duhm himself. Describing the work of Johann Eichhorn, Wilhelm Gesenius, Ferdinand Hitzig, Heinrich Ewald, and Augustus Dillmann and asserting their continued value, Sweeney sees the conclusions ...
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Why Bishlam (Ezra 4:7) Cannot Rest "In Peace": On the Aramaic and Hebrew Sound Changes That Conspired to Blot Out the Remembrance of Bel-Shalam the Archivist
Journal of Biblical Literature; 7/1/2007; Steiner, Richard C; 2538 words;
... related to later Hebrew ... , is rendered "Erlaubniss" by Gesenius, "permission" by BDB, and "authorization" by NJPS.15 Klostermann ... name."28 Most of these suggestions have been ignored. In 1949, Wilhelm Rudolph wrote that "the personal name Bishlam still defies ...
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