What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...

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Everyone knows the name Jesus Christ — but what if that wasn’t the name he was called during his lifetime? In the first century, in the region of Judea, people spoke Aramaic and Hebrew, not English or ...

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"Aramaic? No one speaks Aramaic anymore. It's a dead language." That was my initial response to meeting Shlimon Bet Shmuel ("Sam") and learning that his native language was Aramaic. Sam just smiled. I ...

Unity Spiritual Center in Asbury welcomes Aramaic scholar, Wyming Sun, on Sunday, May 3. Sun will deliver the 10 a.m. Sunday message "The Eight Spiritual Attunements: The Lord's Prayer from Ancient ...

I never intended to visit Adabashi. I was heading toward the border crossing between Turkey and Iraq, hoping to get to northern Iraq before the widely anticipated war began. But the Turkish border ...

It is clearly better to learn Gemara in its original language and not in translation. When students rely on an English translation, they unfortunately will lose the opportunity to gain the necessary ...