Editing Hebrew language (section)

====Biblical Hebrew====
{{main|Biblical Hebrew}}
In its widest sense, Biblical Hebrew refers to the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between {{circa|1000 BCE}} and {{circa|400 CE}}.<ref name=dvbrbw>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_36.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204035409/http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_36.pdf|url-status=dead|title=William M. Schniedewind, "Prolegomena for the Sociolinguistics of Classical Hebrew", The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures vol. 5 article 6|archivedate=4 February 2012}}</ref> It comprises several evolving and overlapping dialects. The phases of Classical Hebrew are often named after important literary works associated with them.
* Archaic Biblical Hebrew, also called Old Hebrew or Paleo-Hebrew, from the 10th to the 6th century BCE, corresponding to the Monarchic Period until the [[Babylonian captivity|Babylonian exile]] and represented by certain texts in the Hebrew Bible ([[Tanakh]]), notably the [[Song of Moses]] (Exodus 15) and the [[Song of Deborah]] (Judges 5). It was written in the [[Paleo-Hebrew alphabet]]. A script descended from this, the [[Samaritan alphabet]], is still used by the [[Samaritans]].
* [[File:Sefer-torah-vayehi-binsoa.jpg|thumb|right|Hebrew script used in [[Ktav Stam|writing a Torah scroll]]. Note ornamental "[[Ktav Stam#Serifs (tagin)|crowns]]" on tops of certain letters.]] Standard Biblical Hebrew, also called Biblical Hebrew, Early Biblical Hebrew, Classical Biblical Hebrew or Classical Hebrew (in the narrowest sense), around the 8th to 6th centuries BCE, corresponding to the late Monarchic period and the Babylonian exile. It is represented by the bulk of the Hebrew Bible that attains much of its present form around this time.
* Late Biblical Hebrew, from the 5th to the 3rd centuries BCE, corresponding to the [[Persian period]] and represented by certain texts in the Hebrew Bible, notably the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. Basically similar to Classical Biblical Hebrew, apart from a few foreign words adopted for mainly governmental terms, and some syntactical innovations such as the use of the particle ''she-'' (alternative of "asher", meaning "that, which, who"). It adopted the [[Aramaic alphabet|Imperial Aramaic script]] (from which the modern Hebrew script descends).
* [[Israelian Hebrew]] is a proposed northern dialect of biblical Hebrew, believed to have existed in all eras of the language, in some cases competing with late biblical Hebrew as an explanation for non-standard linguistic features of biblical texts.