Hebrew Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Abc's, Add, Dots

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• When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

  Etgar Keret

  Kings, Hip Hop, Hips

  "My country right and wrong". Interview With Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Eye, Light, Hair

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1849). “The devil's progress: A poem”, p.27

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• Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

  Joseph Alleine

  Christian, Self, Evil

  "An Alarm to the Unconverted". Book by Joseph Alleine, 1671.

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• Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware that ideas like republicanism found expression in traditions apart from the Hebrew experience, and, indeed, they studied these traditions both ancient and modern.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Ideas, Expression, Republic

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Because on that watch list, they would be like, yeah, your name - they told me like, yeah, your name matches the name of a terrorist or someone that they're watching. I was just like, what terrorist is running around with a Hebrew first name and a Muslim - Arabic last - I'm like, who's that guy?

  Mahershala Ali

  Running, Names, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." I always had this sense that there was something on the other side. That there was something better.

  Naomi Judd

  Book, Thinking, Evidence

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• After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do a talk on free speech.I went into a coffee shop to get a piece of pie and a coffee, and I was reading a paper and I hear a voice. And it was -it was not a voice I was familiar with, but I looked across the table and I saw Lilian Ross.And sitting next to her was William Shawn - no tie, needed a shave. His voice was kind of coarse and rather loud. He wasn't drunk, but I was just stunned.

  Nat Hentoff

  Reading, Coffee, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in English. I thought for sure there'd be a word in Irish but there is none. And then I looked in several other languages and could not find one, until I found the word Sh'khol in Hebrew. I'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Parent, Bereavement

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Names, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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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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• You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.

  Gerald Stern

  Notebook, Flower, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

  John Shelby Spong

  Mean, People, Risk

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

  Andrew Linzey

  Mean, Animal, Dominion

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• All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

  Samson Raphael Hirsch

  Communication, Men, Purpose

  Samson Raphael Hirsch (1942). “The nineteen letters of Ben Uziel: being a spiritual presentation of the principles of Judaism”

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• The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia. The Bible has affected their lives, but in translation, since they do not read the Bible in the original Greek or Hebrew.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Christian, Europe, Class

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Jesus, Latin, Reality

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew, becomes a different book because language is a musical instrument.

  Amos Oz

  Book, Musical, Different

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

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• There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.

  Amos Oz

  Vices, Vice Versa, Certain

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• Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time.

  Amos Oz

  Mean, Reality, Way

  "'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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• 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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