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The oldest known writing in Hebrew is the Gezer Calendar, a little inscription on a school exercise tablet of soft limestone and discovered at Gezer in 1908. For some years its date was uncertain, but its relative archaism compared to other discoveries points to the second half of the tenth century or the very beginning of the ninth as its probable time.

The language is good biblical Hebrew, in a very early spelling. It is written in verse and seems to have been a kind of mnemonic ditty for children.

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