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Pseudo-Hebrew

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Pseudo-Hebrew script on the bustier of Jan van Scorel's Maria Magdalena, 1530

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

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  1. ^ a b Resnick 2023, pp. 81–82.
  2. ^ Schwartz 2010.
  3. ^ Menczel n.d.

Bibliography

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  • 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.