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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

This 8-10 lesson curriculum offers an approach to decoding biblical Hebrew that is systematic, scaffolded, and targeted for English-speaking and -reading students with some proficiency in modern ...

Israeli politicians tells their own people one thing and English-speakers another, writes a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago. Then he returned to Israel, and promptly tweeted, “These ...

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 ...