Aramaic, the language of Jesus, comes to New Jersey. Matthew Petti January 26, 2018. A strip mall 15 minutes down the highway from Manhattan is the last place I expected to hear the language ...

“We want to speak the language that Jesus spoke,” said Carla Hadad, a 10-year-old Jish girl who frequently waved her arms to answer questions in Aramaic from school teacher Mona Issa during a ...

Threatened: Aramaic, a language thought to have been used by Jesus Christ, is in danger of dying out. (Jesus is played here by Jim Caviezel, in 'The Passion of the Christ' 2003) ...

Aramaic was a thriving language during the time of Jesus and his disciples. Many of the gospels were written in the Semitic language, along with sections of the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In this quaint stone village perched high in the mountains above Damascus, the language of Christ has somehow, miraculously, endured through the millennia. Aramaic, which was dominant in the ...

Jesus spoke it, but Aramaic was dying out until residents of a Syrian village embraced the preservation of their forebears' language By Brooke Anderson , Chronicle Foreign Service Aug 12, 2008 ...

Spoken in the Middle East during Jesus' time, Aramaic is still used in everyday life by most of the 130 elderly Maronite Catholics in Kormakiti, which overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. This could ...

Jesus’s language resurrected Christian communities in the Holy Land are teaching Aramaic and reviving the ancient dialect By Diaa Hadid 28 May 2012, 5:09 pm Edit ...

Indeed, the current debate is a mirror image of the last big public argument about Jesus’ language, when Mel Gibson’sThe Passion of the Christ had him speaking what was supposed to be Aramaic.

We know that the language Jesus spoke most commonly was neither Hebrew nor Greek but his native Aramaic, the language of his home and his primary listeners. Only a handful of Jesus’ exchanges are ...

Qaraqosh, Tel Kepe and Karamlesh are just three of the Iraqi towns on the Nineveh plains captured in early August by the Islamic State (IS), but they represent the last major concentration of Arama… ...