Late Hebrew

American  

noun

1. the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 through the 13th century, including Mishnaic Hebrew and Medieval Hebrew.

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Example Sentences

Not only did the documents found combine with the passages in ancient writers and the discovery of the monastery itself to make it possible to form some conception of a remarkable religious movement of which little hitherto had been known, but, in relation to certain other late Hebrew writings, known but not fully understood, which had already been assigned to this same general period, the new manuscripts at once set up what may be likened to both a chain reaction and the clustering of iron filings around a magnet.

From The New Yorker

Thus it is that we have from the literature of two closely allied peoples, the Babylonians and the Hebrews, accounts of the Creation of the world so widely differing, and, at the same time, possessing, here and there, certain ideas in common—ideas darkly veiled in the old Babylonian story, but clearly expressed in the comparatively late Hebrew account.

From Project Gutenberg

The late Hebrew Philosopher Martin Buber, whose books stress concern for the individual over organized religion, has become a big man on non-Jewish campuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also in late Hebrew, Latin c is regularly represented in transliteration by the hard consonant kôph.

From Project Gutenberg

In spite of its obvious attempt to reproduce the classic Hebrew style, the book contains Aramaisms, late Hebrew words and constructions, and the language alone stamps it as late.

From Project Gutenberg