“The best remnants of Judaean Aramaic are found in Ezra, Daniel and the Palestinian Targums.” — James John Courtenay 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in… — Killah Priest Copy Share Image
“There is general agreement that the differences between the Palestinian and Tiberian traditions are so great that they may even reflect separate… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“the preterite function of the Proto-Semitic prefix-conjugation has been preserved in BH's 'consecutive' (or 'conversive') tenses, the origins and significance of which… — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In high school I was voted the girl most likely to become a nun. That may not be impressive to you, but… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
“The Arabic language has had a great history, and in many respects is more remarkable than any other Semitic speech.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“In its ruggedness Hebrew seems an older language than Arabic, but some Arabic forms are certainly older than the corresponding Hebrew.” — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I was reading the Bible in Hebrew from a very young age, so that'll shape ideas about how words can move the… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“Samaritan Targum ... maybe compared with the Aramaic of the Jerusalem Talmud and with the Palestinian Syriac. On the whole it was… — James John Courtenay Copy Share Image
“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
