The Story of the Hebrew Scriptures in the American Colonies

[Jim Myers]

So popular was the Hebrew Language in the late 16th and early 17th centuries that several students at Yale delivered their commencement orations in Hebrew. Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania taught courses in Hebrew - all the more remarkable because no university in England at the time offered it. Many of the Founding Fathers of America were products of these American Universities. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/d1a5da9e4ae2/the-story-of-the-hebrew-scriptures-in-the-american-colonies