JISH, Israel, Nov 9 (Reuters) - In the green hills of the Galilee, where Jesus is said to have preached two thousand years ago, a group of Aramaic speakers looking to revive the language of Christ are celebrating a victory in th…
The interior of the house of a Christian family in Jerusalem, ca. 1850. Some of you may have been following the stories from Israel about a small group of Christian Arabs from the Galilee successfully petitioning the Is…
The Center for Spiritual Living Morristown will present acclaimed Aramaic teacher Dale Allen Hoffman for two days of events at Center for Spiritual Living Morristown on Sunday, Nov. 2 and Monday, Nov. 3. The Center for Spiritua…
Professor Shabo Talay leads a project that has received a 450,000 Euro grant to secure the future of the Aramaic language Turoyo. A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE: The Turoyo language is mainly spoken by the Christian minority in pa…
Christian Mosaic,Syria The siege of northern Iraq against the nation's ethnic and religious minorities by jihadist terror group Islamic State threatens to significantly alter the composition of the nation and write yet …
A house in the Iraqi city of Mosul is tagged with the letter "Noon," the first letter of the word "Nasara," an Arabic term for Christians (photo: AFP/Newscom) By Rob Eshman http://www.jewishjourn…
ERBIL, Iraq - There are important developments in the Iraq crisis. It appears Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will step down. There had been concern that after eight years he would try to hold on to power by military force. A…
Here's an interesting one and half minute video about the emegergence and spread of the Aramaic script through its descendatns. Aramaic evolved from Phoenician and then a dozen or more scripts sprung from it or were infl…
Selected from Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures, this video presents all material from Chapter 2: Vowels with Miles V. Van Pelt. Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures provides 22 easy-to-follow lessons (on 3 DVDs…
From Baghdad to San Diego, Sabri Shamoun lives the American Dream Sabri Shamoun, 74, in the law offices of RJS LAW in Downtown San Diego, where he is an adviser. Sabri Shamoun, a 74-year-old Chaldean American, grew the earnin…
In the Gospel of John the Aramaic terms Βηθεσδά , Γαββαθᾶ , Γολγοθᾶ , Ῥαββουνί are called “Hebrew.”Aramaic, too, must be meant by the “Hebrew tounge” in which Paul spoke to the people of Jerusalem (Acts 21:40, 22:2), and i…
At a meeting in Jerusalem, Israel's prime minister told the Pope that Jesus spoke Hebrew and the Pope corrected him by saying 'Aramaic' Historians believe that Hebrew was the language of scholars and scriptures, so …
The book of Genesis was originally written in Hebrew as was the most part of the Old Testament.Only the book of Ezra and Daniel were originally written in Aramaic. The Targum Onkelos is the Jewish Aramaic translation of the …
Mark 14:30 English And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” Greek καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Ἀμὴν λέγω σοι…
1John 2:25 ܘܗܳܢܰܘ ܫܽܘܘ݈ܕ݁ܳܝܳܐ ܕ݁ܶܐܫܬ݁ܰܘܕ݁ܺܝ ܠܰܢ ܚܰܝܶܐ ܕ݁ܰܠܥܳܠܰܡ ܀ dalālam khayye lan de'shtawdi shu(w)dāyā whānaw And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. promise ܫܽܘܘ݈ܕ݁ܳܝܳܐ to prom…
two reconstructed versions of the beginning of Lord's prayer in Galilean You heard me.There is no such thing as the Lord's Prayer in Galilean Aramaic -the language that Jesus Christ spoke the most.Not in the …
The targums are Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Old Testament.The word Targum means 'translation' in Hebrew. 'Targum' means translation in Hebrew After the emergence of Aramaic the Hebrew language was conti…
Syriac is an Eastern form of Christianity that uses the Syriac language for its liturgy and sacred writings. ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ Mšiḥāyuṯā Suryāyṯā Syriac Christianity It comprises mainly two Rites West and East depending on which…
