If you learned a language in high school, odds are you remember snippets, phrases, or mere words of the language you studied. Biblical Hebrew Instructor David Valeta’s goal is to teach a language so ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures in conjunction with the Jewish Studies Program will offer courses this fall for students and others in the ...

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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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 ...

STAUNTON-No kid going bonkers over adjectives and adverbs would ever understand his parents volunteering to take a class in grammar. And yet several seemingly sane adults have signed up for classes, ...

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 ...