“The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
“Jesus - (Hebrew) - Your perseverance and dedication will get you through a difficult period.” — A.M. McCloud Copy Share Image
“The Babylonian system of accents is similar to the Tiberian, with small variations.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the… — Grace Aguilar Copy Share Image
The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God. — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The Hebrew Bible defines Judaism. It's certainly true that the Talmudic interpretations become authoritative and normative, but they are interpretations of the… — Frank Moore Cross 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
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
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
If we don't understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I was bar mitzvahed, which was hard. I feel it was the hardest thing I ever had to do; harder than making… — Clara Mamet Copy Share Image
The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord';… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the Bible (Hebrews, 6:19), hope is ‘an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
“Some Christians pretend that Christianity was not established by the sword; but of what period of time do they speak? It was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“For the understanding of primitive Semitic vowel-sounds a study of Arabic is almost indispensable.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
“According to some scholars, after 1400 BCE ... Ya'udic and Aramaic separated from ... Canaanite group.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb. — Leo Gordon Copy Share Image
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
“I do not like the darkness, but please don’t make the light too strong.” — Raphael Ben Levi Copy Share Image
“Laban spoke the language which came with that great Semitic migration from Arabia.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image