A 'bone box of Jesus' brother' that is over 2,000 years old and features etchings in Aramaic is said to be the 'most ...

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 ...

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.

A box which is believed to have carried the remains of Jesus' brother, James, could be the oldest physical evidence of Jesus.

A 2000-year-old bone box etched with the name of Jesus’ brother which was discovered in Israel is now on display in the US.

In fact they're identical in Greek. Now think -- Jesus spoke Aramaic. So if you were translating Aramaic, and if I were translating Aramaic, they'd come out different, these translations.

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 ...