Hebrew Quotes - Page 7

• Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Writing, Admirable

  "Correspondence of James Fenimore-Cooper". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, Journal kept by Cooper from January to May 1848, 1922.

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• The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Book, Humor

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• Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

  James Henry Breasted

  Men, Years, Two

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• Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.

  Grace Aguilar

  Land, Unity, Looks

  "A Book of Jewish Thoughts" by Joseph H. Hertz, Oxford University Press, (p. 3), 1920.

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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• People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I'm an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Sunday, Israel

  "Jimmy Carter takes on Israel’s Apartheid Policies and the Pro-Israeli Lobby in the US". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2006.

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• The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the 'chosen people'.

  Simone Weil

  Race, Idols, People

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.6, Routledge

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• People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

  John H. McWhorter

  Thinking, People, Black

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• The assets of the Jewish National Home must be created exclusively through our own work, for only the product of the Hebrew labor can serve as the national estate.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Home, Assets, Estates

  "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs : From Peace to War". Book by Shabtai Teveth, 1985.

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• He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King.
  In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

  W. A. Criswell

  Wise, Jesus, Kings

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• With the Hebrew Bible, you're living in an austere world.

  Frank Moore Cross

  World, Hebrew Bible

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.

  Frank Moore Cross

  New Testament, Interest, My Own

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The English name Jesus traces its origin to the Hebrew word Yeshua. Yeshua is a shortening of Yehoshuah, which means "Yahweh saves."

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Mean, Names

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Different, Weight, Tradition

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Scholars of the Hebrew bible define something they call wisdom literature and I would say clearly the poetry of wisdom is something that comes with age or that might come with age which has to do with reflecting on experience.

  Edward Hirsch

  Age, Literature, Might

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• [My father was ] Presbyterian [minister]. But I did not take the Bible seriously until I was forced to take Hebrew at McCormick Theological Seminary.

  Hershel Shanks

  Father, Ministers, Theological

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

  Hershel Shanks

  Book, Biblical, Epic

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• For 35 years, Frank Cross held one of the most prestigious chairs in academia: the Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages at Harvard University. I believe that's the third oldest university chair in the country.

  Hershel Shanks

  Country, Believe, Years

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by Latin, by Arabic, by Yiddish, by Latino, by German, by Russian, by English, I could go on and on. It's very much like English. The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages. Every language has influences and is an influence.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Greek, Language

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Lava

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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

  Amos Oz

  Years, Two, Age

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.

  Amos Oz

  Writing

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• When you come to the New Testament you can't even swing a cat without hitting three demons and two spirits. And magic becomes something that is everywhere. In the Hebrew Bible this sort of thing doesn't go on.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Cat, Swings, Two

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Miracle, Demon, Hebrew Bible

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The revival of Hebrew, as a spoken language, is a fascinating story, which I'm afraid I cannot squeeze into a few sentences. But, let me give you a clue. Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Giving, Common

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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