Hebraist

A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, at a time when Hebrew was little understood outside practicing Jewish communities.

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Sources

• Spector, Sheila A. "Blake as an Eighteenth-Century Hebraist." Blake and His Bibles. Ed. David V. Erdman. West Cornwall: Locust Hill Press, 1990. 179-229.