Jubilee (biblical) it was thought that the English term "Jubilee" derives from the Hebrew term "yobel" (via Latin ""), which in turn derives from "yobhel", meaning "ram"; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on a shofar, an instrument made from a ram's horn, during that year's Yom Kippur. An alternative etymology notes that the Latin verb "iūbilō", "shout for joy," predates the Vulgate, and proposes that instead the Latin "jubilo" (meaning "shout"), as well as Middle Irish "ilach" (victory cry), New English "yowl", and Ancient Greek "iuzo" (ἰύζω: shout), derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*yu-" (shout for joy). In this
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