Wikipedia's first sentence called it “scholar of hebrew who comes from a christian family background/belief”. Today it says “scholar of hebrew texts who approaches the works from a christian perspective”.
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Christian background A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew texts who approaches the works from a Christian perspective. The main area of study is the Hebrew text of the Bible (known as the Old Testament to Christians and as the Tanakh to Jews), but Christians have occasionally taken an interest in the Talmud and the Kabbalah . The discipline has long been a site of Jewish–Christian intellectual interaction. The early church fathers got their knowledge of Hebrew traditions ( Masoretic , Midrashim and Aggadah ) from Jewish teachers. That is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr , Aphraates , Ephraem Syrus and Origen of Alexandria . Jerome 's teachers are even mentioned by name such as Bar Ḥanina (Hananiah). In the Middle Ages, Christian converts from Judaism provided a key source of Hebrew education, as native Christians rarely learned the language. As the Renaissance and Enlightenment proceeded, the discipline increasingly came to investigate extrabiblical texts, and eventually became a branch of philology .
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A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian family background/belief, or is a Jewish convert to Christianity. The main area of study is that commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians (and Tanakh to Jews), but Christians have occasionally taken an interest in the Talmud , and Kabbalah . The early fathers of the Christian Church got their knowledge of Hebrew traditions ( Masoretic , Midrashim , Aggadah ) from their Jewish teachers. This is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr , Aphraates , Ephraem Syrus , and Origen of Alexandria . Jerome 's teachers are even mentioned by name—e.g., Bar Ḥanina ( Hananiah ).
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A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian family background/belief, or is a Jewish adherent of Christianity. The main area of study is that commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians (and Tanakh to Jews), but Christians have occasionally taken an interest in the Talmud , and Kabbalah . The early fathers of the Christian Church got their knowledge of Hebrew traditions ( Masoretic , Midrashim , Aggadah ) from their Jewish teachers. This is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr , Aphraates , Ephraem Syrus , and Origen of Alexandria . Jerome 's teachers are even mentioned by name—e.g., Bar Ḥanina (Hananiah).
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Scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian background A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian family background/belief, or is a Jewish adherent of Christianity . The main area of study is that commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians (and Tanakh to Jews), but Christians have occasionally taken an interest in the Talmud , and Kabbalah . The early fathers of the Christian Church got their knowledge of Hebrew traditions ( Masoretic , Midrashim , Aggadah ) from their Jewish teachers. This is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr , Aphraates , Ephraem Syrus , and Origen of Alexandria . Jerome 's teachers are even mentioned by name—e.g., Bar Ḥanina (Hananiah).
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Scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian background A Christian Hebraist is a scholar of Hebrew who comes from a Christian family background/belief or is a Jewish adherent of Christianity . The main area of study is that commonly known as the Old Testament to Christians (and Tanakh to Jews), but Christians have occasionally taken an interest in the Talmud and the Kabbalah . The early fathers of the Christian Church got their knowledge of Hebrew traditions ( Masoretic , Midrashim and Aggadah ) from their Jewish teachers. That is seen especially in the exegesis of Justin Martyr , Aphraates , Ephraem Syrus and Origen of Alexandria . Jerome 's teachers are even mentioned by name such as Bar Ḥanina (Hananiah).
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scholar of hebrew who comes from a christian family background/belief
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scholar of hebrew texts who approaches the works from a christian perspective
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