Horn (instrument) a mixture of the two, is called a horn section in these contexts. Variations include: As the name indicates, people originally used to blow on the actual horns of animals before starting to emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in the shofar (), a ram's horn, which plays an important role in Jewish religious rituals. The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called ("keren") in Hebrew, "qarnu" in Akkadian, and ("keras") in Greek. The "olifant" or "oliphant" (an abbreviation of the French "cor d'olifant"/"oliphant", "elephant horn") was the name applied in
Ancient Hebrew writings writing, or the 2nd century CE, or even later origins. Besides the 9th century BCE Ammonite Amman Citadel Inscription and Moabite Mesha Stele and El-Kerak Stela, there are Israelite Hebrew inscriptions written in Paleo- and Biblical Hebrew: Ancient Hebrew writings "This is a part of Hebrew literature" The earliest known inscription in Ancient Hebrew is the Khirbet Qeiyafa Inscription (11th–10th century BCE), if it can indeed be considered Hebrew at that early a stage. By far the most varied, extensive and historically significant body of literature written in the old Classical Hebrew is the canon of the Hebrew Bible (commonly