Not to offend anyone, nor to draw too fine a point, yet within the EB time frame, Hebrew was more or less a dead language, and either Aramaic, Samaritan Aramaic, or Greek were commonly used in the secular life of the street and state. Hebrew continued to be used to a limited degree, along with both Greek and Aramaic in a various polities that comprised Palestine among adherents of Samaritanism and Judaism, as well as the various associated sects, much as Latin was applied in Medieval Europe. However, as these communities, again in the EB time frame, were few and far between, its use was extremely limited, which runs somewhat contrary to the more popular misconceptions.
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