As yet had he known only tears, and the melancholy of the
Hebrews, together with the hatred of the good and just--the
Hebrew Jesus: then was he seized with the longing for death.
It's a word that's made up out'n the Greek ORGO, outside, open, abroad; and the
Hebrew JEESUM, to plant, cover up; hence inTER.
There was the Bible, in its rich old
Hebrew, with Moses and the Prophets speaking to him, and God's voice through all there on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon, with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before.
According to Professor Howison, of the California State University,
Hebrews are heathens.
Preternatural terrors rested upon the
Hebrews, when under the feet of Korah and his company the live ground opened and swallowed them up for ever; yet not a modern sun ever sets, but in precisely the same manner the live sea swallows up ships and crews.
And if, as I said, it was necessary that the people of Israel should be captive so as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians should be oppressed by the Medes so as to discover the greatness of the soul of Cyrus; and that the Athenians should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus: then at the present time, in order to discover the virtue of an Italian spirit, it was necessary that Italy should be reduced to the extremity that she is now in, that she should be more enslaved than the
Hebrews, more oppressed than the Persians, more scattered than the Athenians; without head, without order, beaten, despoiled, torn, overrun; and to have endured every kind of desolation.
The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the
Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
And yet the very success of the
Hebrew revival obscures its broader consequences for the relationship between the Jewish people and Israeli statehood.
It is important that not the majority of
Hebrew loanwords take the suffix -it in feminine formation, and cases examples like snob-a in (1b) are not very common.
Barat is familiar with several languages, including
Hebrew, Yiddish, Romanian, French and English.
Lettinga, on Biblical
Hebrew. Old Testament,
Hebrew, and other scholars from Europe examine the deep rootedness of Biblical law in the Ancient Near Eastern legal tradition, the syntax of Biblical Aramaic, the latest edition of Lettinga's
Hebrew grammar, the challenges of teaching
Hebrew in a theology curriculum, the link between historical-linguistic descriptions of the origins of
Hebrew and ancient Israel's history, and the relationship between
Hebrew philology and Old Testament interpretation and texts from the books of Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea, as well as the "sons of God" in the non-Biblical texts in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
'And just saying 'this is
Hebrew' is the first step.