An Israeli researcher uses computational technology to showcase that the scribes compiling Syriac texts made active editorial ...

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria’s two oldest ...

It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus.

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two ...

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Authorities from the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) on Wednesday slammed ...

The rest of the Old Testament was written in the Hebrew language. The New Testament was ... of Christian antiquity - was written in Hebrew or Aramaic. The books of the Bible were very likely ...

Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two oldest active monasteries.