Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

“One reason Bible translation is a difficult task is that, in many cases, there is no direct one-to-one parallel between words in the original…

— Ron Rhodes

“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

“The general conclusion .. many terms and ideas, which at one time were regarded as exclusively Biblical, are found to belong to the common…

— John Courtenay James

“The Pharisees deliberately avoided the Late form of Biblical Hebrew (LBH), which is the language of the Bible written after the exile, presenting their…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical purposes only…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Archaic Hebrew ... no general agreement among scholars regarding this term.”

— 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

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric.…

— Etgar Keret

“The Bible of Jesus of Nazareth, for instance, was Semitic, the earliest utterances and traditions of the Gospel were Semitic.”

— James John Courtenay