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.
You have miracles [in the Hebrew Bible], yes, but they're not the work, normally, of demons.
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews.
Hebrews. This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.
Before Ben-Yehuda. . . Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did.
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee. " Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
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.
When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
