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
“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
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
“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
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
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
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk in some of the other versions of the Bible, the Hebrew versions, and things about the end… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“Relatively the Canaanites were a cultured and active people, as Egyptian and other literary remains prove. From them the Israelites probably gained… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of… — W. A. Criswell Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead… — Moshe Dayan 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
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
'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
“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos 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 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
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
The God of the Hebrews is a God that human language, we're not even supposed to speak the holy name. We were… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish… — Rick Strassman Copy Share Image
“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit. As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth. I learned how to… — Kazim Ali Copy Share Image
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
It is always amusing to me and delightful of course that my books sell so well in America and other parts of… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Babylonian, Assyrian, Chaldaean ... tribes ... emerge on the scene with one language ... must be characterized “It is most probable that… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“The 'square' character (of the Hebrew language) indeed seems to have arisen out of the Palmyrene script .. No doubt Aramaic was… — John Courtenay James Copy Share Image
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image