Certain Quote by Amos Oz

Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some…

— Amos Oz

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible.…

— Heinrich Heine

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

— Amos Oz

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

— Aleister Crowley

“The English language [during the Elizabethan era] wasn't standardized. There were no official dictionaries. There was no cultural belief that words should always be…

— Bayard Louis

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

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“There have been various attempts to reconstruct the vocalization and pronunciation of classical biblical Hebrew, which certainly differs considerably from that established by the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those works, but…

— Rhys Ifans

“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