According to Babbel, 8.3 million Israelis and 1 million people outside Israel speak Hebrew. Although Hebrew was considered a dead language by the third century CE, developing a greater understanding ...

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Why Learn Hebrew at CU Boulder? Hebrew is one the oldest, continually used languages. It is the language of the ancient Israelites and the Hebrew Bible or The Old Testament from before the Common Era, ...

Hebrew is the national language of the Jewish people. Just as the Jewish people would never relinquish their land for a foreign territory such as Uganda and will never cease to remember their wondrous ...

I read a disturbing article by Aviya Kushner this morning. She reports that between 2013-2016 enrollment on Biblical Hebrew courses suffered a 23.9% decline and modern Hebrew dropped by 17.6%: No ...

Speaking to the media in the United States before and after his latest election as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reassured American Jews and other supporters of Israel that their widely ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...