Hebrew bible Quote by Norman F. Cantor

“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

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

— Amos Oz

“Some scholars have argued that the Persian period was one of the most productive for Hebrew literature. During these two centuries, earlier Israelite literature…

— Lester L. Grabbe

“Archaic Hebrew ... earliest inscriptions dating as far back as the close of the second millennium BCE.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Phoenician writing is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite system, and from these developed the Palaeo-Hebrew script (c. 800 BCE) and the Aramaic script (c.…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“I am interested in the literature and religion of ancient Israel. I focus on biblical law in its ancient Near Eastern context and on…

— Bernard M. Levinson

“To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for…

— John Warwick Montgomery

“Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.”

— Voltaire

“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

Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral…

— Noam Chomsky

“Of all the languages that have existed upon the Earth, the Hebrew language is unique and extraordinary in its ability to paint vivid pictures…

— R. Alan Woods

“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