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	Hebrew Language Encyclopedia Article @ Supposedly.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hebrew, long extinct outside of Jewish liturgical purposes, was revived at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism.
		Mishnaic Hebrew from the 1st to the 3rd or 4th century CE, corresponding to the Roman Period after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba Letters and the Copper Scroll.
		Hebrew functioned as the local mother tongue, Aramaic functioned as the international language with the rest of the Mideast, and eventually Greek functioned as another international language with the eastern areas of the Roman Empire.
	www.supposedly.net /encyclopedia/Hebrew_language (6228 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Semitic languages
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Hebrew, long extinct outside of Jewish liturgical purposes, was revived at the end of the 19th century by the Jewish linguist Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, owing to the ideology of Zionism, and has become the main language of Israel, while remaining the liturgical language of Jews worldwide.
		All Semitic languages exhibit a unique pattern of stems consisting of "triliteral"?title=or consonantal roots (normally consisting of three consonants), from which nouns, adjectives, and verbs are formed by inserting vowels with, potentially, prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Semitic_languages (2290 words)

	Hebrew
		The language has also been calledthe speech of Canaan, and Judean, after the kingdom of Judah.Ancient Hebrew, the language of the Bible, was succeeded by anintermediary form, Mishnaic Hebrew, about the 3rd century BC.Modern Hebrew, the only vernacular tongue based on an ancientwritten form, was developed in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Hebrew was preserved, however,as the language of ritual and sacred writing and through the centurieshas undergone periodic literary revivals.
		The language is written from right to leftand employs an alphabet of 22 characters; the vocabulary is basedon biblical Hebrew and the syntax on Mishnaic Hebrew.
	thor.prohosting.com /~linguist/hebrew.htm (534 words)

	Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		While the term "Hebrew" as a nationality is customarily used to refer to the ancient Israelites, the classical Hebrew language was extremely similar to the Canaanite languages spoken by their neighbors, such as Phoenician; indeed, Moabite and Hebrew are often considered to be two dialects of the same language.
		Hebrew was also the language of hundreds of authors, One of whom is the Nobel Prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon.
		Sephardi Hebrew language is the basis of Standard Hebrew and Not all that different from it, although traditionally it has had a greater range of phonemes.
	hebrew-language.iqnaut.net (2802 words)

	Hebrew languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hebrew languages refer to a variety of Canaanite languages and dialects historically spoken by various peoples in the region of Canaan whom Abrahamic religion believes to have been Hebrews who emigrated from the Chaldees.
		The language was Akkadian, the predominating language of the Chaldees.
		The language was one of the extinct Hurro-Urartian languages, a non-Semitic language family based in eastern Anatolia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_languages (549 words)

	Yale University Library - Hebraica Team: About Hebrew
		Hebrew Language [is a] Semitic language originally adopted by the 'ibhri, or Israelites, when they took possession of the land of Canaan west of the Jordan River in Palestine.
		Hebrew was preserved, however, as the language of ritual and sacred writing and through the centuries has undergone periodic literary revivals.
		The language is written from right to left and employs an alphabet of 22 characters; the vocabulary is based on biblical Hebrew and the syntax on Mishnaic Hebrew.
	www.library.yale.edu /cataloging/hebraicateam/hebrew.htm (593 words)

	[b-hebrew] GDD (was not: Self-mutilation)
		Mishnaic Hebrew does not deal only with matters of religion, but mentions, for instance, the names of dozens of implements used at the time, and records thousands of events and sayings about mundane, secular aspects of life.
		Mishnaic Hebrew was an independent dialect and existed together with Biblical Hebrew, the latter being the language in which the Torah was read, the former the language of conversation, prayer and the Oral Torah.
		This makes sense only if Hebrew and not Aramaic is intended because in Aramaic the root n-u-h, rather than sh-b-t, is used for "to rest." II Kings 18 tells of the Assyrian general Rabshakeh's advance on Jerusalem and his attempt to persuade the beleaguered inhabitants of the city to surrender.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2004-October/021136.html (2232 words)

	Informat.io on Hebrew Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Israel, it is one of the two official languages (together with Arabic), and spoken by an overwhelming majority of the population.
		The core of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) is written in Classical Hebrew, and much of its present form is specifically in the dialect of Biblical Hebrew that scholars believe flourished roughly around the 6th century BCE, near the Babylonian Exile.
		Hebrew was revitalized during the late 19th and early 20th century as the spoken language of Israel, called New Hebrew and also called Israeli Hebrew or Modern Hebrew.
	www.vacilando.sk /?title=hebrew-language (5373 words)

	Language Resources - Hebrew
		Mishnaic Hebrew is a later form of the language, represented by the collection of rabbinical literature, the most prominent of which is the Mishnah, a collection of Hebrew treatises on Jewish law, written in the 1st century AD.
		Modern Hebrew, revived as a spoken language in the 19th century, was declared the official language of Israel in 1948.
		The vocabulary of the language is largely based on Biblical Hebrew and the syntax on Mishnaic Hebrew.
	www.langcen.cam.ac.uk /resources/hebrew/hebrew.php (266 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Hebrew language
		Sometimes the above phases of spoken Classical Hebrew are simplified into "Biblical Hebrew"?title=(including several dialects from the tenth century BCE to 2nd century BCE and extant in certain Dead Sea Scrolls) and "Mishnaic Hebrew"?title=(including several dialects from the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE and extant in certain other Dead Sea Scrolls).
		This Tiberian Hebrew from the 7th to 10th century CE is sometimes called "Biblical Hebrew"?title=because it is used to pronounce the Hebrew Bible, however properly it should be distinguished from the historical Biblical Hebrew of the 6th century BCE, whose original pronunciation must be reconstructed.
		On his argument, the underlying structure of the language is Slavic, "re-lexified"?title=to absorb much of the vocabulary and inflexional system of Hebrew, in the same way as a creole.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Hebrew_language (6095 words)

	Biblical Hebrew language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Biblical Hebrew or Classical Hebrew is the ancient form of the Hebrew languages as spoken by the Israelites, in which the Hebrew Bible (Torah and Tanakh) was originally written.
		Its widest usage is by the Jews and the various Jewish dialects of Hebrew.
		Roman Era Hebrew, or Mishnaic Hebrew, has further gramatical influences from Greek and Parsi, mainly through the dialect of Aramaic which was the Lingua franca of the area at the time.
	biblical-hebrew-language.iqnaut.net (299 words)

	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Department of Hebrew Language is concerned with the linguistic description of Hebrew.
		General linguistic theories and methods, as well as philological approaches, are studied and developed to analyze the structure of the Hebrew language from its beginnings to the modern period.
		Through these studies, students gain an understanding of the periods and forms of the Hebrew language according to modern scientific methods, in relation to languages that are close to Hebrew because they have a common source, and to Jewish languages alongside Hebrew.
	www.hum.huji.ac.il /jewish/language (240 words)

	Rescribe: Hebrew Translation
		Hebrew, along with Arabic and Amharik, is a Semitic language.
		It was revived as a spoken language at the turn of the 20th century and was declared the official language of the state of Israel in 1948.
		Scholars agree that the oldest form of Hebrew is that of the Old Testament poems, especially the “Song of Deborah” in chapter 5 of Judges.
	www.rescribe.com /hebrew_translation.html (348 words)

	Jewish Language Research Website: Hebrew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Structurally speaking, Modern Hebrew may be defined as a fusion language comprising the intracommunal classical components of Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, and Babylonian Aramaic, with Yiddish as its main susbtratum.
		Yeivin, I. Jerusalem: The Academy of the Hebrew Language.
		Jerusalem: Department of the Hebrew Language, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
	www.jewish-languages.org /hebrew.html (1216 words)

	Hebrew
		Early Hebrew was the alphabet used by the Jewish nation in the period before the Babylonian Exile up to the 6th century before Yeshua.
		The Torah which is written in Biblical or Classical Hebrew refers to the language of the Hebrews as the language of Canaan or Judah.
		Biblical or Classical Hebrew, which was a spoken language in Palestine until the third century before Yeshua, was a basic language with a limited vocabulary and its verbs had only two tenses.
	www.torahbytes.org /sechel/hebrew.htm (435 words)

	A Brief History of the Hebrew Language
		At the end of the 6th century BC ketav Ivri was replaced by the Hebrew square script (ketav meruba).
		Biblical Hebrew – aka Classical Hebrew; by the time of Jesus, Aramaic was the common language, but Hebrew was used in synagogues and in Temple worship.
		Eliezar Ben Yehuda (1858-1922) led the rebirth of Hebrew as a spoken language.
	www.hebrew4christians.com /Grammar/Unit_One/History/history.html (1106 words)

	Let's Talk the Talk-classical Hebrew language for Gentiles! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The language in which the canonical books of the Old Testament were written, except for the Aramaic sections in Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:12-26; Daniel 2:4b-7:28; Jeremiah 10:11, and a few other words and phrases from Aramaic and other languages.
		Classical Hebrew was followed by Mishnaic Hebrew, the language of the Mishnah, which reflects Hebrew as it was known from around 200 B.C. to about A.D. 500 Mishnaic Hebrew was the language of the academy where the Scriptures were interpreted and where the oral interpretations of the sages were passed down.
		The language differs from the classical idiom in several important respects, including a greatly expanded vocabulary with the addition of words from Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, the use of new particles, idioms, and patterns of speech, and especially extensive development of the verbal stems.
	www.angelfire.com /in/HisName/talkwalk.html (3473 words)

	Discovering the Language of Jesus: Hebrew or Aramaic?
		That is not to say what they were capable of speaking, but rather, what language they spoke in the markets, their homes and in their inner circles when sharing their thoughts.
		The language of Jesus is important to our understanding of the Jewish culture and world in which Jesus lived, taught and interacted.
		Probably typical of the prevailing opinion was Abraham Geiger’s suggestion, given in 1845, that Mishnaic Hebrew was an artificial creation of Rabbis whose native tongue was Aramaic (Buth 1987:25).
	www.ccsom.org /languageofjesus (1096 words)

	American Hebrew Academy - Academics - Foreign Language
		We'll introduce you to the incredibly rich layers of the Hebrew language--Biblical, Mishnaic, Midrashic, Liturgic, Poetic--and their influence on today's modern Hebrew.
		We give special attention to the Semite sister languages, Aramaic and Arabic, and the common denominator among them.
		Other language courses are offered as enrichment electives based on student demand.
	www.americanhebrewacademy.org /academics/foreignlanguage.asp (140 words)

	Hebrew Language Research and Studies
		The purpose of this guide to Hebrew Language studies and research is to provide you with a combined print and web-link source for the study and research of the Hebrew Language.
		The second method of searching by keywords can be very powerful if you remember that the word(s) you use can be located anywhere within a bibliographic record's text, and may or may not pertain to the subject or topic which you are searching.
		A Comprehensive etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language for readers of English.
	www.fiu.edu /~library/internet/subjects/languages/hebrew.html (354 words)

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