Language Quote by Eugene L. Lowry

“so many Jews in Alexandria spoke only Greek that the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek for their benefit. Yet they remained Jews.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Other instances can hardly be regarded as natural developments of the Greek, or as accidental coincidence with Hebrew or Aramaic. They must be explained…

— James John Courtenay

“when a Greek or Roman individual wanted to communicate a concept, he or she would typically write a theological treatise or lay out a…

— Robert F. Gallaty

“The translators of the LXX did not attempt to find a Greek word to correspond in sense with every Hebrew word or phrase. Sometimes…

— James John Courtenay

“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

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“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

“... at no period did Greek become the language of Palestine.”

— James John Courtenay

“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“For the Greeks, beauty is truth; for the Hebrews, truth is beauty.”

— Heinrich Heine

“J. C. Ryle[69] (1816-1900) wrote the following: “For many centuries there has prevailed in the Churches of Christ a strange, and to my mind,…

— Dalton Lifsey