“It is evident that at no period between the Exile and the Christian era was there one homogeneous language in Palestine. But… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“the Nabataeans were real Arabs .. there is substantial agreement of Biblical Aramaic with Nabataean, both in words and construction.” — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“During its peak in the eighth to ninth centuries, the Babylonian version of Hebrew extended from Persia to Yemen. It declined in… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There are certain concepts, which exist in English, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Hebrew has a system of… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Live on the divine Eucharist, like the Hebrews did on the Manna. Your soul can be entirely dedicated to the divine Eucharist… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
“We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an… — Celso Cukierkorn Copy Share Image
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's… — India Arie Copy Share Image
“The Hebrew inscriptions are practically all pre-exilic, and do not shed much light on the language of Palestine after the Captivity.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“The original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“The Phoenician extends from the v cent B.C. to i cent. B.C ... The Aramaic extends from the viii cent. B.C. to… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“Aramaic spoken in 500 B.C. from Babylon in the north to Assuan in the south of Egypt was identical with what has… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
