Modern Hebrew is arguably the most eloquent resurrection of a language, in the world; classical Hebrew, preserved in biblical and post-biblical writings, Talmudic texts, Jewish liturgy and medieval Hebrew literature, has become a living language spoken by the inhabitants of the State of Israel. It is a language whose history, which began more than three thousand years ago, overlaps with that of a single people, the Jewish people, and with that of a single country, the Land of Israel.