Art of life Quote by Richard Elliott Friedman

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

— Elie Wiesel

“It was not something called "religion" distinguished from the rest of life, but rather all of life lived in a certain way.”

— Brad S. Gregory

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“society. The task of theology was not to mirror the norms of culture, but when necessary to confront and even contradict them, since it…

— David Schnasa Jacobsen

“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

“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus been made…

— Abhijit Naskar

“What I was referring to was not religion as such, but a special category of abstractions, the most exalted one, which, for centuries, had…

— Ayn Rand

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

— Moses Mendelssohn

“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

“The exile marks the disappearance of this language (i.e., Biblical Hebrew) from everyday life and its subsequent use for literary and liturgical purposes only…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“There was a centre to the religion: worship at the Jerusalem temple. Most Jews accepted the sacredness of the temple and the general teachings…

— Lester L. Grabbe

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

— James John Courtenay