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  By Damien Cowl “Suriston” (JPA. סוריסטון), colloquially known in English as Galilean Dialect, formed as a variant of the Western Aramaic languages in the Levant around the time of Roman rule in the region. It was spoken by the people of Galilee in northern Judea, somewhat distinct from the Samaritans or the Jews from Jerusalem. Jesus and his followers spoke in this language, for He grew up and spent most of His life in Galilean towns such as Nazareth and Capernaum. Where it shares a great deal of core vocabulary and grammar with other Aramaic dialects (as all dialects do) there are a large number of quirks and differences that make it unique. The term Galilean dialect generally refers to the form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic spoken by people in Galilee during the late Second Temple period, for example at the time of Jesus and the disciples, as distinct from a Judean dialect spoken in Jerusalem. Decades after Jesus' death, in the aftermath of the failed Jewish revolts against the...

Galilean שלם לכון  Shlam  lᵉḵon Peace be upon you. Shlam (שלם)- peace lᵉḵon (לכון) or lkwn - upon you Syriac Aramaic   Shlomo 'aleykhun  ܫܠܳܡܳܐ ܥܰܠܶܝܟ̣ܽܘܢ  Shlomo or Shlama means hello in Syriac. Compare that with the  Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם shālôm ʻalêḵem

Nowadays most scholars accept that Jesus Christ was a Jew.But could it be that he was a Hellenized Jew? Meaning of Hellenized First let's take a look at what Hellenized means. It means under the influence of Greek culture. Spread of the Greek language during  the Diadochi and Roman times. After the conquests of Alexander the great ,Greek culture spread far and wide eastwards including the middle East, especially around Antioch (modern-day Turkey) ,Western Syria , Lebanon and Alexandria in Egypt. A portion of the local Jewish population came under the influence of Greek civilization and became Hellenized. Antioch was one of the two biggest centers of Hellenized Jews -the other being Alexandria where the Septuagint was produced - the first translation of the Hebrew Bible in Greek. Mother toungue of Jesus Christ. It is also widely accepted that the mother toungue of Jesus was Galilean Aramaic- a dialect of the Western branch of Aramaic. All Western Aram...

Galilean Aramaic¹ אילנה דחיה or אילן חייה (ʔilan ḥayya) “The Tree of Life.” Transcription ʔilana dᵉḥayyah Translation The Tree of Life. Vocabulary and grammar ʔilana - tree dᵉ - of  ḥayyah - life The double y (יי) shows that the y is a consonant. The tree of life is the source of eternal life in various mythologies and religions. It is the connection between heaven and earth. In Christianity it first appears in Genesis 2:9. Genesis 2:8-9 The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Tree-Of-Life Notes 1.Galilean was the Aramaic dialect Jesus spoke.

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 original form anyway.Only reconstructions of it exist.Let me elaborate on this. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic: Language & Meaning No text has ever been found with the Lord's Prayer in the Galilean dialect .The oldest known form of the prayer is in Greek from the Gospels of Luke and Mark.The prayer is not found in Matthews's Gospel.The only attested form of the prayer in Aramaic is that of the Peshitta in Syriac Aramaic which is a translation of the original Greek text. Furthermore the whole dialect itself Galilean Aramaic remains obscure and very scarcely attested. Currently it is being reconstructed and revised all the time. We know very little of this dialect .Let alone  a prayer in it. What it does exist are reconstructions of the pra...

It is generally agreed that Jesus spoke Galilean Aramaic ,what scholars call Jewish Palestinian Aramaic.It is also hypothesized that he also spoke Hebrew and even some Greek and Latin. At the time Aramaic was a major language and a lingua franca among the population in the Near East.It was widely spoken in Palestine even among the Jews which had long become their primary language,the langauge of the people.By that time Hebrew was only the language of the elite mainly for religious purposes. In the New Testament ,the Greek original,there are some utterances of Jesus in Aramaic which is clear evidence  about his native tongue. Jesus grew up in Galilea,a region where  many cultures existed and many languages were spoken.But Aramaic and Hebrew were not the only ones spoken by the local population.Around Nazareth ,especially in the city of Sephoris lived the Greek-speaking Gentiles.So Jesus might have picked up some Greek.Latin was the official language of the region being u...

The Lord's prayer in Galilean Aramaic,the native language of Jesus Christ himself does not exist as in an original form.There are, though, linguistic reconstructions of it since Galilean Aramaic remains to this day a very scarsely attested language. What it does exist is its version from Syriac Christianity and in various other Aramaic dialects from later times. This version is a translation from Koine Greek. Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, Pater hemon ho en tois uranois Our Father ,Who art in heaven, ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου. Aghiasthēto  Hallowed be Thy Name. Ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου. Eltheto he vasileia su. Thy Kingdom come. ... Below you can read: The Lord's Prayer in Syriac Aramaic a linguistic reconstruction of The Lord's Prayer in Galilean Aramaic. The Lord's Prayer in Chaldean Aramaic (Sureth) Some branches of the Eastern Church still use in their liturgy the Syriac language,which is very close to the Aramaic spoken by Jesus." Our Lord's Prayer '...