Judaism Quote by James John Courtenay

“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

“The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language…

— 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

“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

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay

“It is found that Assyrian and Canaanite have certain terms in common, which are not found in other Semitic languages.”

— John Courtenay James

“It is doubtful whether the vernacular of Palestine admitted any Greek element prior to the Christian era. Even in the Greek form of the…

— James John Courtenay

“If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ancient Arabic may naturally be regarded as the chief source of the Hebrew language.”

— John Courtenay James

“Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.”

— Charlotte Brontë