Judaism Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

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

— 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

“The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers…

— Rob Bell

“The Bible of Jesus of Nazareth, for instance, was Semitic, the earliest utterances and traditions of the Gospel were Semitic.”

— James John Courtenay

“The original language of the descendants of Abraham was not Aramaic, which was changed to Hebrew when the tribes of Israel entered Canaan.”

— 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

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

— Meir Kahane

“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

“Antioch was largely a Greek city, but Greek was not the language of Syria. It is quite unwarrantable to argue from the discovery of…

— James John Courtenay

“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14”

— Eugene L. Lowry

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

— John Courtenay James