Classical Hebrew

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Classical Hebrew, in its narrowest sense, refers to the Biblical Hebrew dialect that flourished around the 6th century BCE, and comprises much of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh. In a wider sense, it refers to Hebrew as a spoken language that flourished as various evolving dialects from the 10th century BCE until the 3rd or 4th century CE in the land of Israel, including the Biblical Hebrew dialect.