Judaism Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

“The Israelite tribes that settled in Canaan from the fourteenth to thirteenth centuries BCE, regardless of what their language might have been before they…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

— Amos Oz

“The geographical and historical facts of Hebrew place it within the Northwest Semitic group of languages.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let…

— Amos Oz

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

— 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

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

— Amos Oz

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret