The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Judea and Galilee were not idle standers-by; these regions factored into the use of Koine Greek as common language that tied them to the rest of the world. Even though the Old Testament had a mixture ...

Experts say that "Jesus Christ" may not be the name of the central figure of Christianity. Scientists believe that the real ...

On a street corner in the old town of Damascus, rugged men with rifles stare sharply at passers-by. Despite their appearance, ...

In the world of Christian literature, the Bible stands as the best-selling book and simultaneously one of the most questioned ...

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 ...

Judaism is not a religion of blind obedience. Indeed, astonishingly in a religion of 613 commandments, there is no Hebrew word that means to obey.

Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Syriac and ...

The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. Through the work of Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries many members of this rite returned to union with Rome, including the ...

The names are, unfortunately for us, not translated from the original language but transliterated to approximate ... as some study aids mistakenly presume an Aramaic root synonymous with “Cainan”.