Bible Quote by 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

“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“has been diminished in modern Christian thought. Some Definitions and Notes on Use It is important in a book like this to define some…

— Timothy Michael Law

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

— Amos Oz

“These languages were not like modern globalized ones, serving mainly to convey information in explicit and interchangeable forms-- but with a dimension called 'style'…

— Sarah Ruden

Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At…

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in…

— Amy Lowell

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.

— Thomas Harrison

“Religious imagery and symbolism were the common idioms that all speakers employed when making rhetorical points. Rather than indicating a level of personal piety,…

— Steven K. Green

Well it is certainly the case that the poems - which were in fact published during Shakespeare's lifetime - are weird if they began…

— Stephen Greenblatt