Pseudo-Hebrew

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] Gary Schwartz, an art historian, notes that the use of pseudo-Hebrew in 15th-century art is not distinctive, as other works of the time also contain pseudo-Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.[4]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Resnick 2023, pp. 81–82.
  2. ^ Schwartz 2010.
  3. ^ Menczel n.d.
  4. ^ "309 Pseudo-Semitism – Gary Schwartz Art Historian". 2010-11-22. Retrieved 2024-10-07.

Bibliography

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  1. ^ Vera, Vicente Jara; Ávila, Carmen Sánchez (February 2017). "Four Versions of the Christus by the Massys: Deciphering the Meaning of the Letters". Religions. 8 (2): 19. doi:10.3390/rel8020019. ISSN 2077-1444.
  2. ^ Leiman, Rivka Elitzur; Leibner, Uzi (2016). "An Amulet from Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam". Israel Exploration Journal. 66 (2): 220–231. ISSN 0021-2059. JSTOR 44474007.