Where Syriac is a variety of Aramaic, the language of the "Old Syriac" manuscripts is too young and physically removed to be Christ’s language, and actually has features that we know that Christ ...

The Aramaic language, one of the oldest continuously spoken languages in the world, holds a special place in the hearts of those who cherish linguistic heritage and cultural identity. As a native of ...

The 97-year-old Skordis is one of only 900 people in the world who speak Cypriot Maronite Arabic, or Sanna. Today, his ...

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 ...

Rather, Jesus the historical figure likely conversed in Aramaic, the native language of Judeah, the region in the Roman Empire where scholars believe the messiah and his disciples lived (now part ...

Many Jews in the Kurdish region spoke Jewish Neo-Aramaic, an extension of the ancient Aramaic language. It is typically divided into dialects such as Lishana Noshan (from the town of Tekab ...

Scholars believe that 'Jesus' would have gone by a name in his own native language of Aramaic which is nothing like our modern version. In fact, the name 'Jesus' even contains letters that weren't ...

These included Aramaic, a northwest Semitic language which was a long-standing literary and liturgical language and the lingua franca of the ancient Near East by the time of Jesus; and Hebrew ...