He improved under the tuition of the rabbis there to a great degree, insomuch that he was admired by them as a prodigy of learning. "Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences", - Arthur L. Hayward

Hence from these Oriental scholars we learn that the Hebrew was only one of several languages which enjoyed at different times a development of the highest culture and polish, although the teaching of the old Rabbis was that the Bible was the first set of historical and religious books to be written. "The Interdependence of Literature", - Georgina Pell Curtis

It is a book, or books rather, of the words of our wise Rabbis explaining the Scripture. "Trading", - Susan Warner