It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams Copy Share Image
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons. — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The best remnants of Judaean Aramaic are found in Ezra, Daniel and the Palestinian Targums.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
We offer peace and neighborliness to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom,… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“The prevailing hypothesis continues to be that the Palestinian tradition is earlier than the Tiberian, although, under the influence of the latter,… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing… — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
...the goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
Hebrews 3:19 tells us why the children of Israel did not enter into the promised land. Their problem was the same thing… — Brian Williams Copy Share Image
“In morphology, the (synchronic) study of the compatibility of consonants within Semitic triconsonantal root ... has been conducted with great precision in… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Not only does every Hebrew word have its own definition, but every Hebrew letter, within the word, has its own meaning. God… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Pantaenus was one of these and is said to have gone to India. It is reported that among persons there who knew… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The word of God has provided nine explanatory designations of the heavenly beings... the first group is forever around God and is… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“It is noticeable that the Phoenician terms are often shared with Ugaritic.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Having good knowledge in Arabic language is a must for everyone who wishes to learn any other Semitic language, especially the Syro-Aramaic… — Clemens Joseph David Copy Share Image
“According to Bauer, the oldest form of the Semitic verb is the imperfect, which does not indicate 'subjective' or 'objective' time but… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The Cyprus inscription "Ba'al Lebanon" dates from the viii cent. B.C. and is the oldest specimen of Phoenician writing down.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story. — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should do what we do, stack chips like *Hebrews* Don't let the melody intrigue you (uh-uh) Cause I leave you, I'm… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“Assyrian and Aramaic had long separate histories before the time of Nebuchadrezzar. But evidence shows that these languages came into contact with… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
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