Biblical Hebrew, also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the
Siloam inscription at Istanbul Archaeological Museum
Coin issued during the Bar Kokhba revolt. The Paleo-Hebrew text reads שמעון "Simeon" on the front and לחרות ירושלם "for the freedom of Jerusalem" on the back.
Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple during the Siege of Jerusalem.
The Gezer calendar (c. 925 BC). Scholars are divided as to whether the script and language are Phoenician or paleo-Hebrew.
A sofer stam writing a Sefer Torah.
A page from the Samaritan version of Leviticus, written in the Samaritan script.
The Qumran Caves Scrolls are a collection of some 981 different texts—apocrypha and various extra-biblical works, but also copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible and the second oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the biblical canon.