Hebrew Inscriptions

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or inscriptions:

    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, then we remembered Zion.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXXVII (l. CXXXVII, 1)

    “Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents. . . . The end of the world is evidently approaching.” Sound familiar? It is, in fact, the lament of a scribe in one of the earliest inscriptions to be unearthed in Mesopotamia, where Western civilization was born.
    C. John Sommerville (20th century)