The well-known and for many the controversial film The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson is entirely in the Aramaic language. But what kind of Aramaic is it spoken? The Aramaic dialect used in the movie is a hypothetical one .It was infact reconstructed by a scholar of Aramaic- William Fulco- who was hired to translate the dialogues of the script into Aramaic. This reconstructed Aramaic was mostly based on the vernacular and grammar of Eastern Aramaic dialects. Fulco incorporated elements from the Book of Daniel and he also used Syriac Aramaic for words that were difficult to reconstruct. Why wasn't the Aramaic spoken by Jesus used in the movie? It is maintained that Jesus Christ spoke Galilean Aramaic ,a dialect the Western Aramaic branch, which is very slim attested to this day and remains an obscure dialect. Efforts are continued by scholars to reconstruct Jesus mother toungue based on the few evidence that exists of it. Read also The Jesuit scho...