Ancient Hebrew was the language of the early Jews from 2000 to 500 BCE
It was used for the Jewish Bible (the Christian "Old Testament"), which is why it's also called "Biblical Hebrew"
still used as a liturgical language.
See also Modern Hebrew.
Hebrew fonts in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts
Language information at Wikipedia and Ethnologue
Writing system information at Omniglot and Wikipedia
Alternate names for Ancient Hebrew include Biblical Hebrew, Old Hebrew, and Classical Hebrew
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