In what language was the Bible originally written?
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
It dates from the thirteenth to the first century B.C. The New Testament was written in Greek in the first century A . D.
The Old Testament was written in Hebrew.
It dates from the thirteenth to the first century B.C. The New Testament was written in Greek in the first century A . D.
Robert Frost wrote “good fences make good neighbors” in the 1914 poem “Mending Wall”: “And he likes having thought of it so well/He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ “
The hero of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has no name. He is a young man from the South who finds his way to a hidden existence in a coal cellar in New York.
The animal in the 1865 Mark Twain story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is named Dan’l Webster.
In the Italian poem Orlando Furioso by Ariosto (1532), the knight Orlando goes crazy with rage when he learns that Angelica, the woman he loves, has married someone else. Orlando runs around naked, destroying everything in sight. By the poem’s end, he is cured.
Theodor Seuss Geisel known as Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, at age eighty-seven. Dr. Seuss had written about fifty books that sold more than 200 million copies. His last book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990), was still on the bestseller list when he died.
Felix Salten’s real name is Siegmund Salzmann. Under the pen name “Salten,” the German author wrote Bambi (1923). The first English translation was published in 1928.