Age Quote by Amos Oz

“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Some scholars have argued that the Persian period was one of the most productive for Hebrew literature. During these two centuries, earlier Israelite literature…

— Lester L. Grabbe

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of…

— Cynthia Ozick

“The earliest Hebrew texts that have reached us date from the end of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the…

— Amos Oz

“When historians and literary scholars talk about the classical heritage, or the legacy to Western civilization from antiquity, they are primarily thinking of four…

— Norman F. Cantor

“The earliest inscriptions in Hebrew date from the tenth BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz