Discover which Hebrew words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Hebrew with audio.

SAN ANTONIO — The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs at several Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, a controversial new analysis concludes. Israelites living in Egypt ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an ... from 1842 BC. 'What drew me to Sinai 115 in the first place is that I followed an archaeological ...

Another chapter titled Aleph-bets & Letters spotlights the full set of the Hebrew alphabet, variously interpreted by different generations of artists, including the author. Especially illuminating ...

Instead, she started drawing around Hebrew letters, using brightly colored markers to hug the contours of the aleph bet, the Hebrew alphabet ... “That for me is definitely the most rewarding ...

Alan Cheuse reviews Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet, two novellas by translator and scholar Curt Leviant, published by the University of Wisconsin press.

“It was this single proto-consonantal Hebrew letter that helped me to understand that the world’s oldest alphabet – the language of which has been unidentified for over 150 years of ...

I will continue to teach the Hebrew alphabet and the stories our Torah contains, so that these kids can guard this treasure in their turn. I’ll teach until my body can no longer carry me into ...

The Hebrew alphabet lost five characters by a decree of the Ukrainian Commissariat of Education, acting upon request of the Jewish section of the Communist party.