When the Babylonians conquered ancient Judah in the 6th century B.C.E., sending many Israelites into exile, Hebrew gradually ceased to be spoken. It became primarily a written language, used in ...

More ancient texts are discovered throughout ... inscriptions in Hebrew and Aramaic languages, both using the Hebrew alphabet consisting mostly of consonant symbols. In their final project under ...

in Hebrew. But what is the earliest history of this language? What language did the ancient Israelites speak? This episode examines the origins of Hebrew and its relationship with Canaanite ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 301-334 (34 pages) More than 100 previously undocumented Hebrew epitaphs (many of them fragmentary) dating from the fifteenth to the ...