Judaism Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“According to Paul Kahle's well-known thesis, the Masoretic, especially the Tiberian, system of punctuation is not simply a representation of how Hebrew was actually…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The various systems of accentuation and vocalization introduced into the text of the Bible by the Masoretes had started to develop by about the…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The variation of place and time is also a problem, as we cannot simply accept that Biblical Hebrew, which had already ceased to be…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Various attempts have been made, with differing degrees of success, to reconstruct pre-exilic Hebrew, including its morphology.”

— 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

“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

“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 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

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