Known as the language of sacred texts, Hebrew is both fascinating and vital. This has been the way to write Hebrew up to the present. The Masoretic Hebrew texts of the Bible were written this way.

The Hebrew symbols we know today began around 11th Century A.D. Most of the scrolls from the Dead Sea Caves were written in late Semitic script, where it saw first use between the 4th Century B.C. There are theories of this being older than what the current discoveries suggest. Its foundations dated as far as between the 20th and 12th centuries B.C. The Hebrew alphabet saw just as many changes as its spoken counterpart throughout the years. The late 19th Century saw its revival as a spoken language among people. Judaists kept the language alive through their liturgies. It also served as a language of commerce in Jews of varying first tongues. Hebrew was no longer widely spoken by Late Antiquity, but it continued to see use as a literary language in Spain. It had gone through several changes during these times, notably due to the rise and fall of empires in the region. It was widely accepted that Hebrew flourished as a spoken language from 1200 to 586 BCE. These are languages once used by people throughout the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and all the way to the east Mediterranean. Hebrew is the last of the Canaanite dialects.

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