Pseudo-Hebrew Explained

Pseudo-Hebrew is the artistic use of symbols meant to appear like Hebrew script but that are not in fact Hebrew letters. The related phenomenon of the use of actual Hebrew letters in ways that do not represent actual language may be called "nonsense Hebrew". 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.^[1]

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Notes and References

1. Web site: 2010-11-22 . 309 Pseudo-Semitism – Gary Schwartz Art Historian . 2024-10-07 . en.
2. Vera . Vicente Jara . Ávila . Carmen Sánchez . February 2017 . Four Versions of the Christus by the Massys: Deciphering the Meaning of the Letters . Religions . en . 8 . 2 . 19 . 10.3390/rel8020019 . free . 2077-1444.
3. Leiman . Rivka Elitzur . Leibner . Uzi . 2016 . An Amulet from Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam . Israel Exploration Journal . 66 . 2 . 220–231 . 44474007 . 0021-2059.