Pseudo-Hebrew is the artistic use of symbols meant to appear like Hebrew script but that are not in fact Hebrew letters.[1][2][3] The related phenomenon of the use of actual Hebrew letters in ways that do not represent actual language may be called "nonsense Hebrew".[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Resnick 2023, pp. 81–82.
- ^ Schwartz 2010.
- ^ Menczel n.d.
Bibliography
[edit]- Benner, Gabriela (2019). "El Faux-Hebreo: un alfabeto con errores". Cultura, Espaço & Memória (9): 357–365.
- Menczel, Linda-Saskia (n.d.). "Hebrew Inscriptions in European Art of the 15th–18th Centuries — A Sign of Erudition". Academia.edu. Originally published in Romanian in Caiete de Arte și Design 8 (2020): 58–63. CEEOL 924543
- Resnick, Irven M. (2023). "'Lingua sacra et diabolica': A Survey of Medieval Christian Views of the Hebrew". In Daniel Stein Kokin (ed.). Hebrew Between Jews and Christians. De Gruyter. pp. 67–93. doi:10.1515/9783110339826-004.
- Rodov, Ilia (2013). "Script in Christian Art". Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics. Vol. 3. Brill. pp. 462–477.
- Schwartz, Gary (22 November 2010). "Pseudo-Semitism". Art History from Holland.