על לשון התעודה הליטורגית חבר/צאלים 6

XḤev/Se 6 is a liturgical document which was committed to writing around 100 CE and bears significant resemblance, in form and content, to rabbinic benedictions. It stands out among other contemporary Judaean Desert documents (ca. 70–135 CE) in its genre and Hebrew style. The paper offers a typological analysis of the language of the text and a close examination of its significant features. It appears that the orthography and phonology of XḤev/Se 6, which resemble the Judaean Desert corpus, are in line with the document’s time and provenance, and betray contemporary scribal practices typical to private documents. In its morphology, syntax, lexicon, and phraseology, on the other hand, the text reflects an earlier literary style of the Second Temple period and, as expected, relies heavily on Biblical Hebrew. The sheer difference between this style and the typical language of the Judaean Desert documents, which is very close to Mishnaic Hebrew, testifies to a living and rich knowledge of Hebrew at the end of the first century CE in Judaea.