Classical Hebrew

Classical Hebrew, or Biblical you may call it, is the language of the Torah. As you may know in the modern day, with the nation of Israel and the mass immagrantion of Jews, Classical Hebrew as been replaced with Modern Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is a great step forward for Jews around the world, being back a long dead language, but I get the itch of very European-ization of the language and the use by Zionist, while I do not reject Modern Hebrew and do find the importance of it, I have a love for other Jewish languages such as Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and Classical Hebrew. I believe bringing back and people learning Classical Hebrew would be great for people who in a way believe in the Torah, like Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

Classical Hebrew in its own language is commonly called 'שְֹפַת כְּנַעַן' (Language of Canaan) or 'יְהוּדִית' (Judean).

Alphabet

Like modern Hebrew or Arabic, it is written and read right to left.

There's many differences between classical and modern Hebrew, when first seeing the written form, you may notice the use of niqqud(נִקּוּד)/nikud(נקדות). We will be using the word niqqud since it is the classical version. As you can see, the classical version uses little dots on its script. Niqqud is used to repersent vowels or alternative pronunciation, while it is used in Modern Hebrew at times, Classical Hebrew is commonly written only using niqqud.

Classical Hebrew has used different scripts the past, most notably Paleo-Hebrew. While it would cool to use Paleo-Hebrew, it would not be all so useful for a modern day classical Hebrew, rather a niqqud Hebrew script should be focused on, for it being more common and simplicity.

Here the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. א - Alef, ב - Bet, ג - Gimel, ד - Dalet, ה - He, ו - Waw, ז - Zayin, ח - Chet, ט - Tet, י - Yod, כ/ך - Kaf, ל - Lamed, מ/ם - Mem, נ/ן - Nun, ס - Samech, ע - Ayin, פ/ף - Pe, צ/ץ - Tsadi, ק - Qof, ר - Resh, ש - Shin, ת - Tav.

I would say in the modern day, the standard vocalization of Classical Hebrew is Tiberian vocalization and should be used by default. While other systems like Palestian and Babylonian have been used, Tiberian is the most common and one that has lasted. I do reject the other ways of vocalization, Tiberian would best be put as defualt.

Word Order

Classical Hebrew uses VSO unlike it's modern day counterpart, more like other semetic languages like Arabic. Example of this is in Genesis 1:1, when the lord made the heavens: בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם (Created G*d (prt) Heavens).