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24 July 2022
Biblical Hebrew refers to the particular sort of Hebrew one finds in the Hebrew Bible. It is further subdivided into Early Biblical Hebrew and Late Biblical Hebrew, although using linguistic differences to date biblical texts is one of those things that people continue to argue about. My impression is that most scholars hold that Early Biblical Hebrew actually does represent an earlier form of the language than Late Biblical Hebrew, but I have also seen an attack on that position by Rezekto and Young, in Historical Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew. Their work can be found online in PDF form here, although I'm not qualified to recommend or condemn it.
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