1 2 "Hebrew" in The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, edit. F.L. Cross, first edition (Oxford, 1958), 3rd edition (Oxford 1997). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church which once said, in 1958 in its first edition, that Hebrew "ceased to be a spoken language around the fourth century BCE", now says, in its 1997 (third) edition, that Hebrew "continued to be used as a spoken and written language in the New Testament period".
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert và đồng nghiệp biên tập (2013). “Hebrewic”. Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Gợi ý |số biên tập viên= (trợ giúp)
↑ Sáenz-Badillos, Ángel and John Elwolde. 1996. A history of the Hebrew language. P.170-171
↑ "If you couldn't speak Greek by say the time of early Christianity you couldn't get a job. You wouldn't get a good job. a professional job. You had to know Greek in addition to your own language. And so you were getting to a point where Jews...the Jewish community in say Egypt and large cities like Alexandria didn't know Hebrew anymore they only knew Greek. And so you need a Greek version in the synagogue." -- Josheph Blankinsopp, Professor of Biblical Studies University of Notre Dame in A&E's Who Wrote the Bible
