Die Anfange der hebraischen Grammatik (1895), together with Die hebraische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892)

The present volume reproduces two still unsurpassed accounts of the flourish and eventual decline of Hebrew linguistic scholarship covering the period from the 10th to the 16th century, at a time when Christian scholars and theologians – as a result of the Reformation with its emphasis on the authority of the Bible – began to study Hebrew. These studies are Wilhelm Bacher’s Die Anfänge der hebräis...