Hebrew Alphabet

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Yehezkel Shabath
HEBREW ALPHABET its Invention, Development and Transliteration
The author was born in Iraq and immigrated to Israel in 1951.
He is a scholar in Middle Eastern Studies and Library Science as well as a Linguist and knowlegeable in Semetic and Western Languages. He acquired his higher education in Israeli and Canadian universities and has published several articles on current and modern Middle Eastern affairs in Canada and Israel.
His diversified knowledge enabled him to write this comprehensive and authoritative book on the development and the transliteration of the Hebrew script while emphasizing clearly the connection between this script and the scripts of the major alphabetic characters developed from Early Hebrew or from its "sister" Phoenician. In addition, he discusses thoroughly the several transliteration systems of Hebrew and improves the International system.
The author reaches the conclusion that Hebrew script fits the Hebrew language, that... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Yehezkel Shabath
HEBREW ALPHABET its Invention, Development and Transliteration
The author was born in Iraq and immigrated to Israel in 1951.
He is a scholar in Middle Eastern Studies and Library Science as well as a Linguist and knowlegeable in Semetic and Western Languages. He acquired his higher education in Israeli and Canadian universities and has published several articles on current and modern Middle Eastern affairs in Canada and Israel.
His diversified knowledge enabled him to write this comprehensive and authoritative book on the development and the transliteration of the Hebrew script while emphasizing clearly the connection between this script and the scripts of the major alphabetic characters developed from Early Hebrew or from its "sister" Phoenician. In addition, he discusses thoroughly the several transliteration systems of Hebrew and improves the International system.
The author reaches the conclusion that Hebrew script fits the Hebrew language, that Romanization is needed only for the bibliographic use of Western libraries and that there is a need to return to original Hebrew pronunciation.
The book serves as a helping tool to students of Linguistics and Alphabetology as well as librarians in reading transliterated Hebrew terms and to all those interested in understanding how the main alphabetic scripts: Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Arabic developed. Vissza