Although Aramaic shares similarities with Hebrew, they are completely distinct languages. By the time of Jesus' life, Hebrew was mainly used as a language of religion in the same way that Latin was ...

Aramaic is a language which first emerged in ... Although priests would have spoken Hebrew amongst themselves and used the language for their religious texts, it wouldn't have been spoken on ...

The Official Aramaic later became accepted as the standard form of literary communication by the Aramaic speaking people in various part of the Empire. It is called Assyrian Aramaic (and, less ...