It is with some hesitancy but also with a certain pride that we launch this Dictionary, the first dictionary of the Classical Hebrew language ever to be published. Unlike all previous dictionaries of ancient Hebrew, this work does not restrict itself to, or privilege in any way, those ancient Hebrew texts found in the Hebrew Bible. Rather, it views Hebrew simply as a language like any other ancient language, for which it is necessary to examine the evidence of all the extant texts.
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