It may surprise you to learn that there was no such language in the ancient world called Hebrew. The Canaanites, from whom Jews emerge at least in some number, spoke a language called Canaanite, Canaan, Qana’an, or by the Greeks, Phoenician.

In fact, the Torah itself tells us that the language it is written in is called SFT QNN or the language of Canaan. The word Ivrit, for Hebrew, is never used.

The idea of “Paleo-Hebrew” is nonsense. It is a complete mythical construction. Paleo-Hebrew is nothing more than the Phoenician alphabet. Almost everything we have from Judea, including the inscription of “YHWH and his Asherah” from the 9th or 8th c BCE is written in the Phoenician script in a lnaguage called Canaan or Phoenician, which is what Hebrew is. Not SIMILAR, but SAME.

Ivrit for the language and Ivrim for the people is a word that describes a region of the world in the ancient times called Iberian Albania, Iberia, Iveria or Colchis or Kolkhis. It is the region of the modern day nations of Georgia and Armenia, on the Black Sea, and in fact the ancient kingdom of Kartvili, Georgia, was called Iveria. As the people from this part of the world migrate West into Europe, they take their ancient placenames with them, and so today, the term Iberia is most commonly associated with Portugal and Spain, on the Westernmost part of Europe. “Albania” is most commonly understood to be the European nation in Southeastern Europe, on the Adriatic. But both terms were most commonly used in the ancient world to refer to this area on the Black Sea, today we would call it Caucuses.

Immediately south of this region is Northern Iraq, in the ancient world called Chaldea or Babylonian Chaldea. We know by tradition that the Jews are said to be from Chaldea, i.e. Abraham certainly, that the Samaritans, also from here, are from the neighbouring region of Cuthi. Both of this is mentioned in the Tanakh.

Additional to the etymological evidence, however, is an attestation we can find in Herodotos, which in combination with the themes chosen for the Biblical story of Exodus, how the Hebrews were once slaves in the land of Egypt, provides for curious documentary evidence. Herodotos writes (in Historiae, II, 104:1-3 — Legrand = F1R):

( 1 ) For it is plain to see that the Colchians are Egyptians; and this that I say I myself noted before I heard it from others. When I began to think on this matter, I inquired of both peoples; and the Colchians remembered the Egyptians better than the Egyptians remembered the Colchians; (2) the Egyptians said that they held the Colchians to be part of Sesostris’ army. I myself guessed it to be so, partly because they are dark-skinned and wooly-haired; though that indeed goes for nothing, seeing that other peoples, too, are such; but my better proof was that the Colchians and Egyptians and Ethiopians are the only nations that have from the first practised circumcision. (3) The Phoenicians and the Syrians of Palestine acknowledge of themselves that they learnt the custom from the Egyptians, and the Syrians of the valleys of the Thermodon and the Parthenius, as well as their neighbours the Macrones, say that they learnt it lately from the Colchians. (trans. A. D . Godley, LC)

Therefore, the term “Hebrew” is likely synonymous with the term Cholchian as it is used by Herodotos. It is a later creation, and refers to people who were believed to have had a connection to the Jews and Egyptians (i.e. Semitic) and is therefore likely a term that had been initially applied by the Europeans as the Jews (Yehudi, language is Yehudith – a term Torah does use a few times) in reference to their then geographic location in the Caucuses) rather than their ethnicity or religion.

In many European languages, the word for “Jew” is not “Jehudi” or “Yehudi”, but “Yevrey,” or “Evrey,” or “Iberey” – as in Iberian Albania, or Iverian.

One therefore begins understanding the continual piling on of mistaken, anachronistic and proxy concepts and terms, and their inclusion into the culture, such that what may be a very recent phenomenon, begins being understood as somehow ancient or fundamental to the religion. Thus we have the Haredi Jews in Israel wearing Shabbat hats made of fur and long black coats in the middle of the desert – a custom they developed (and still cling on to like dear life as if it was something from Moses) in the middle ages Poland.