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‏מקנה אברם לאברהם דבלמש : דקדוק שיטתי ומקיף של השפה העברית ברוח הדקדוק הספקולטיבי = Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram (Peculium Abrae) : a systematic and comprehensive grammar of the Hebrew language in the spirit of speculative grammar

Title
  • ‏מקנה אברם לאברהם דבלמש : דקדוק שיטתי ומקיף של השפה העברית ברוח הדקדוק הספקולטיבי = Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram (Peculium Abrae) : a systematic and comprehensive grammar of the Hebrew language in the spirit of speculative grammar / דרור בן-אריה.
  • Miḳneh Avram le-Avraham de-Balmeś : diḳduḳ shiṭati u-maḳif shel ha-śafah ha-ʻIvrit be-ruaḥ ha-diḳduḳ ha-speḳulaṭivi = Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram (Peculium Abrae) : a systematic and comprehensive grammar of the Hebrew language in the spirit of speculative grammar / Deror Ben-Aryeh.
Author
  • ‏בן-אריה, דרור
  • Ben-Arie, Dror
Publication
  • ‏רמת-גן : הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, תשפ''ב [2022]
  • Ramat-Gan : Hotsaʼat Universiṭat Bar-Ilan, 782 [2022]
  • ©2022

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418 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : facsimiles; 25 cm
Summary
Peculium Abrae is a bilingual grammar of the Hebrew language compiled by Avraham Dablamesh (~1460, Lecce, 1523, Padua), an Italian Jew who was a physician, philosopher, lecturer at the University of Padua and translator of philosophical essays from Hebrew into Latin, and has close ties with Christian humanists. The essay was published in Venice in 1523 in Hebrew and Latin, after the author's death, published by the well-known Hebraist Daniel Bomberg. This composition stands out in its scope, structure, originality and combination of the Hebrew grammatical tradition with the intermediate philosophy. The essay is special in that it includes a separate chapter on syntax, which has no equivalent in previous Hebrew grammars. The essay interweaves abstract concepts and vague definitions and discussions, the intent of which is unclear. Dablamesh in general, and "Mekna Avram" in particular, aroused and arouse great interest in research in Israel and around the world, but despite the attempts, his theory of language was not understood until now. The book proves that Dablamesh's composition from the sixteenth century is influenced by the Modist school, a branch of the speculative (=theoretical) grammar of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Dablamesh is mainly influenced by Thomas Marport's essay, Grammatica speculativa. The book thoroughly analyzes the key terms in Dablamesh's composition, in both versions, the Hebrew and the Latin. Mainly it deals with the field of syntax, and first and foremost with composition (compositio) and use (regimen). With the help of the Latin Modest writings, which were written about two hundred years earlier, the essay makes accessible for the first time the teachings of an extraordinary Hebrew grammarian to the modern reader, and reveals to the Hebrew reader the teachings of a Renaissance man, a Jew jealous of his Judaism, who took upon himself the task of merging the insights of the Christian logicians into a tradition Hebrew grammar.--online translation
Alternative Title
  • Abraham de Balmes's Miqneh Abram (Peculium Abrae) : a systematic and comprehensive grammar of the Hebrew language in the spirit of speculative grammar
  • Peculium Abrae
Subject
  • Balmes, Abraham ben Meir de, approximately 1440-1523
  • Hebrew language > Grammar > Early works to 1800
  • Hebrew language > Syntax > Early works to 1800
  • Speculative grammar
  • Hebrew language > Grammar
  • Hebrew language > Syntax
Genre/Form
Early works.
Note
  • Includes table of contents in English.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-365) and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Table of contents also in Englsih.
ISBN
  • 9789652266088
  • 9652266086
LCCN
011000203353
OCLC
  • 1346390275
  • on1346390275
  • SCSB-14441738
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library