Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Ancient Hebrew texts

Ancient Hebrew writings are texts written in Biblical Hebrew using the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet before the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The earliest known precursor to Hebrew, an inscription in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), if it can be considered Hebrew at that early a stage. By far the most varied, extensive, and historically significant body of literature written in Biblical Hebrew is the Hebrew scriptures (commonly referred to as the Tanakh), but certain other works have survived as well.

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  1. The Dead Sea Scrolls

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory collection of Biblical texts and other documents dating from around 250 BC to AD 68, which were first rediscovered in a cave in 1946

    4 May 2023

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    Featuring: Sarah Pearce, Charlotte Hempel, George Brooke

     
  2. The Talmud

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Talmud, the written version of Jewish oral law and one of the most important texts of Judaism.

    29 May 2014

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    Featuring: Philip Alexander, Norman Solomon, Laliv Clenman