Download or read book Languages in Bethlehem written by Bernard Spolsky and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet investigates the major changes in demography, politics and language in the town of Bethlehem. It starts by tracing the political and economic history of the town over the past two millennia, and then makes a detailed study of the current linguistic landscape. The study shows the effect of the Christian institutions in introducing Western education and languages, and of the pilgrim and tourist industries in maintaining a high value for multilingualism. The sociolinguistic investigation reveals major changes in the Arabic spoken in the town. Whereas most residents formerly used a variety of Arabic similar to that spoken in Palestinian villages, emerging social identity issues seem to have produced new distinctions. Younger women and some Christian men are tending to adopt an urban pronunciation like that of nearby Jerusalem, at the same time as the speech of younger educated Moslems is showing the growing influence of the standard variety of Arabic. By relating the use of linguistic variants to changes in identity, this study shows that Bethlehem is a town in transition, being transformed from its previous status as a mainly Christian Arab town into an important Palestinian and dominantly Muslim city. The study has produced information that will greatly assist the development of language and language education policies. It shows the need to find a way to maintain and strengthen Arabic, while encouraging the development of competence in English, Hebrew and other languages that are vital for economic development.
Download or read book Languages in Bethlehem written by Bernard Spolsky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bethlehem written by Nicholas Blincoe and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Bethlehem] brings within reach 11,000 years of history, centering on the beloved town's unique place in the world. Blincoe's love of Bethlehem is compelling, even as he does not shy away from the complexities of its chronicle." -- President Jimmy Carter Bethlehem is so suffused with history and myth that it feels like an unreal city even to those who call it home. For many, Bethlehem remains the little town at the edge of the desert described in Biblical accounts. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. Nicholas Blincoe tells the town's history through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts, and orchards to show the city from every angle and era. His portrait of Bethlehem sheds light on one of the world's most intractable political problems, and he maintains that if the long thread winding back to the city's ancient past is severed, the chances of an end to the Palestine-Israel conflict will be lost with it.
Download or read book The Saving Name of God the Son written by Jean Ann Sharpe and published by Bethlehem Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For all ages, read-aloud ages 3-up"--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Languages of Diaspora and Return written by Bernard Spolsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until quite recently, the term Diaspora (usually with the capital) meant the dispersion of the Jews in many parts of the world. Now, it is recognized that many other groups have built communities distant from their homeland, such as Overseas Chinese, South Asians, Romani, Armenians, Syrian and Palestinian Arabs. To explore the effect of exile of language repertoires, the article traces the sociolinguistic development of the many Jewish Diasporas, starting with the community exiled to Babylon, and following through exiles in Muslim and Christian countries in the Middle Ages and later. It presents the changes that occurred linguistically after Jews were granted full citizenship. It then goes into details about the phenomenon and problem of the Jewish return to the homeland, the revitalization and revernacularization of the Hebrew that had been a sacred and literary language, and the rediasporization that accounts for the cases of maintenance of Diaspora varieties.
Download or read book The Languages of Native North America written by Marianne Mithun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.
Download or read book Bethlehem 2000 written by Mitri Raheb and published by Palmyra Verlag, George Stein. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book describes in detail the history and culture, religion and traditions, as well as the political situation of Bethlehem today and the everyday lives of Palestinians at the end of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Proof sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians written by James Constantine Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Bethlehem written by Sana Abu Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations with Special Reference to Those Contained in the Hymn Books of English speaking Countries written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations Ed written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revival and Awakening written by Adam H. Becker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans have little understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East. They assume that the two are rooted fundamentally in regional history, not in the history of contact with the broader world. However, as Adam H. Becker shows in this book, Americans—through their missionaries—had a strong hand in the development of a national and modern religious identity among one of the Middle East's most intriguing (and little-known) groups: the modern Assyrians. Detailing the history of the Assyrian Christian minority and the powerful influence American missionaries had on them, he unveils the underlying connection between modern global contact and the retrieval of an ancient identity. American evangelicals arrived in Iran in the 1830s. Becker examines how these missionaries, working with the “Nestorian” Church of the East—an Aramaic-speaking Christian community in the borderlands between Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire—catalyzed, over the span of sixty years, a new national identity. Instructed at missionary schools in both Protestant piety and Western science, this indigenous group eventually used its newfound scriptural and archaeological knowledge to link itself to the history of the ancient Assyrians, which in time led to demands for national autonomy. Exploring the unintended results of this American attempt to reform the Orient, Becker paints a larger picture of religion, nationalism, and ethnic identity in the modern era.
Download or read book Stable in Bethlehem written by Joy N. Hulme and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This tender bedtime counting book invites us to nestle with the animals in the manger where Jesus was born."--Page [4] cover.
Download or read book Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages written by James Constantine Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slouching Towards Bethlehem written by Joan Didion and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.
Download or read book Bethlehem written by Karen Kelly and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the atmospheric storytelling of Kate Morton and Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering debut about two intertwined families and the secrets that they buried during the gilded, glory days of Bethlehem, PA. A young woman arrives at the grand ancestral home of her husband’s family, hoping to fortify her deteriorating marriage. But what she finds is not what she expected: tragedy haunts the hallways, whispering of heartache and a past she never knew existed. Bethlehem is a multigenerational saga that weaves together the lives of two prominent families during the historic steel boom era of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Inspired by the true titans of the industry, Bethlehem is a mystery, a love story, and a tragedy. It is a story of temptation and regret; a story of secrets and the cost of keeping them; a story of forgiveness. It is the tale of two complex women: the dynamic and beautiful Susannah Parrish Collier and her daughter-in-law, the outsider Joanna Rafferty Collier. Thrown together in the name of family, they will unravel mysteries long hidden and complex that have threatened to tear apart a dynasty.
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English and German and the German and English Language German and English written by Joseph Leonhard Hilpert and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
