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Hebrew Months
Month Hebrew English Length The Bible Holidays 1 נִיסָן Nisan 30 days Called Abib(Exodus 13:4, 23:15, 34:18, Deut. 16:1) and Nisan (Esther 3:7) in the Tanakh. פֶּסַח Passover 15th-21st of Nisan 2 אִיָּר / אייר Iyyar 29 days Called Ziv … Continue reading
The Dead Sea Scrolls Online
The Dead Sea Scrolls, the greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century, is now available online for free viewing. It is a project of Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Dead Sea Srolls available for free viewing online are: … Continue reading
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History of the Hebrew Language
1. The name Hebrew Language usually denotes the language of the sacred writings of the Israelites which form the canon of the Old Testament. It is also called Ancient Hebrew in contradistinction to the New Hebrew of Jewish writings of … Continue reading
The Aspiration of the Tenues
The harder sound of the six Begadkephath letters, indicated by a Dageš lene, is to be regarded, according to the general analogy of languages, as their older and original pronunciation, from which the softer sound was weakened. The original hard … Continue reading
Unchangeable Hebrew Vowels
What vowels in Hebrew are unchangeable, i.e. are not liable to attenuation (to Šewâ), modification, lengthening, or shortening, can be known with certainty only from the nature of the grammatical forms, and in some cases by comparison with Arabic. This … Continue reading
