BERLIN — Jesus spoke Aramaic. It was his mother tongue and 2,000 years ago it was the main language throughout the Middle East. The New Testament, however, is translated from Greek into all the ...

I was shocked when I started reading the sermons in poetry by Narsai, the fifth-century saint, the “Harp of the Spirit”, born ...

Jesus participated in both the Aramaic and Hebrew culture and its literatures as well as the kind of Hellenistic Greek that he needed to do his business in his travel and his ministry.

This image from the Biblical Archaeology Society shows a first century A.D. burial box with an Aramaic inscription that reads 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus'Credit: Getty The inscription ...

The limestone box, or ossuary, features the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,' written in ancient Aramaic. Because the names correspond to those of Jesus of Nazareth's brother ...

The limestone box — also called an ossuary — has the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,' written on it, in ancient Aramaic. Due to the inscription, many have speculated ...

A town steeped in history and faith, Maaloula remains one of the few places where the ancient Aramaic language, once s..|News ...

For 1,000 years, Aramaic was written and spoken right across Middle East. It was the language spoken by Jesus and his followers. The Jewish holy book, the Talmud, was written in Aramaic ...