He was born in Lithuania in 1858 and went to Palestine in 1881. the Jews spoke Aramaic, the lingua franca of the Levant, and Hebrew was strictly used for religion.Įliezer Ben Yehuda was the driving force behind the revival of the ancient language and its transformation into its modern form. This is so because in the first century A.D. Written Hebrew was used minimally in some few books. Jews of the diaspora used Hebrew in religious services. The Sanhedrin relocated outside Jerusalem, and synagogues mushroomed, as much as possible, outside Jerusalem. The Jews were partially dispersed, after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. See for yourself 'Palaeo-Hebrew or Old Hebrew' below: Today, more than 9 million people speak Hebrew and call it their native tongue.Ībove is Biblical Phoenician which becameĬalled Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet in 1954, a blatant LIE.

A hundred and fifty years ago, Hebrew was not a spoken language. Now it flourishes in the 21st century as an everyday language. Why do Phoenician and Hebrew sound similar?īackground of the Hebrew language since the fall of Jerusalem 70 A.D.Īfter more than three millennia, half of which it lay dormant, Hebrew went through an extraordinary story, unparalleled in history. Phoenician is the mother tongue of the Mediterranean, our first alphabet They were nothing more than Phoenician language and script. The article proves that there was nothing called Old Hebrew language or script (same for Samaritan).

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