Semitic Quote by James John Courtenay

“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

“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

“To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to…

— Dimitri Gutas

“The non-Aryan, "Asianic," group of languages, to which certainly Lycian and probably Karian belong, has been shown by the German philologer Kretschmer to have…

— Leonard William King

“With the progress of the Greek arms cam the decline of the Greek language.”

— James John Courtenay

“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

“As a matter of fact, no other language in the world has received such praise as the Lithuanian language. The garlands of high honour…

— Immanuel Kant

“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

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The work of the authors of the LXX was not only a translation, it was also a revised version. In all such translation work…

— James John Courtenay

“There was only a language of families, a tongue woven from a lifetime of shared experiences. Its vocabulary consisted of gestures and curt sentences,…

— Courtney Milan

“However differently we spoke the language, as Spanish speakers, our close ties with Latin and Greek gave us a sense of superiority: we were…

— Valeria Luiselli