For nearly 2,000 years, Hebrew was a dead language. But in the 19th and 20th centuries, this liturgical language made a comeback as a modern tongue. Its revival is unprecedented, said Nancy Berg, a ...

The religious language that lay dormant for millennia is now global, used by millions of people around the world—including in China. The Codex Sassoon, the oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible, is ...

JERUSALEM – It was a dead language, an 8,000-word relic. And as 19th-century Jewish pilgrims began settling the hills and valleys of what would become Israel, the status of Hebrew seemed like that of ...

Did those children, who were in fact our great grandparents, really speak Hebrew? Well, not exactly. They spoke a language in which Hebrew words were embedded, but its grammar was the same grammar ...