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Originally Posted by avinatbezeq
To tell a long story short Hebrew was spoken here in Israel about 2500 years ago. We wrote The Book. Then we were conquered by the Romans, have revolted and were exiled.
Sometime later, Hebrew became a Holly language.
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You've got your timeline a little mixed up.
The Jewish revolt took place in 70AD. Hebrew had already long been a "Holy language" by that time and had pretty much died out as a spoken language; the everyday languages of Judea were Aramaic and, for trading purposes, Greek. (Greek had been the "lingua franca" of the Eastern Mediterranean since the days of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC).
The Bible in everyday use by Jews in that time was the Septuagint - written in Greek, not Hebrew. That's why all the Old Testament quotes in the New Testament are from the Septuagint,
not from the Hebrew Old Testament. (The Septuagint is not a very good translation, so it's easy to tell the difference.)