A guided journey - 10 minutes

A language that came home

Five stops, in order, from an amulet older than most surviving Hebrew to a household that decided the old language would raise a child after all.

1. 1 Ketef Hinnom Amulets The oldest surviving biblical words are already recognisable.
2. 2 Aramaic, the second mother tongue The street changed languages; Hebrew kept its work.
3. 3 Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's Jerusalem One Jerusalem household made the old language domestic again.
4. 4 The Language That Never Fell Silent The playground finished what the dictionaries began.
5. 5 The Blue and White Language became one of the ordinary materials of home.