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Hebrew Language , Major official language of the State of Israel.
Hebrew is the national language of the Jewish population of Israel (about 5 million) and the mother t… Hebrews , Hebrews
Term that is found chiefly in the Biblical traditions concerning the 2d millennium b.c., and then, apparently after centuries of desuetude, r… Semitic Languages , SEMITIC LANGUAGES , the name given by A.L. Schloezer in 1781 to the language family to which Hebrew belongs because the languages then reckoned among… Yiddish Language , YIDDISH LANGUAGE , language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stock… Typography , Hebrew *printing began about 1475, the date of publication of two books, one at *Reggio di Calabria and the other at *Piove di Sacco, near Venice. It… Hexapla , HEXAPLA
The body of manuscript evidence compiled by origen at caesarea in palestine before a.d. 245 for comparison of the existing Greek versions of…
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