Coasters Quote by Etgar Keret

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

— 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

What happens when you speak colloquial Hebrew is you switch between registers all the time. So in a typical sentence, three words are biblical,…

— Etgar Keret

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

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

— Etgar Keret

It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it -- all the associations which a different word has.

— David Ben-Gurion

“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

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

— Zubin Mehta

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

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

— Etgar Keret

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

— Henry David Thoreau

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