Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ features two languages that haven't been used in common speech for centuries -- Latin and the even less familiar Aramaic. NPR's Renee Montagne ...

For the first time in history, a book is written to reveal that the language of the Qur'an is Aramaic, not Arabic. The Aramaic language of the Qur'an renders interpretations that are different from ...

A Facebook post paraphrases a translation of the Lord's Prayer by mystic, author, and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz. As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The ...

Unexpectedly during a group meditation, I heard the "Our Father" prayer in original Aramaic, and it resonated in my body like a deep, physical blessing. I wondered, is this is how it sounded from ...

LONDON — Geoffrey Khan had almost given up. A linguist at the University of Cambridge, he was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to find the last speakers of a rare dialect of Aramaic. The first of his three leads, ...

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https://doi.org/10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.1.0165 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.139.1.0165 Copy URL Also called Melkite Aramaic. See Alain ...

Some of you may have been following the stories from Israel about a small group of Christian Arabs from the Galilee successfully petitioning the Israeli Ministry of Interior to register them as ...

If a Middle Eastern man from 2,500 years ago found himself on his home territory in 2015, he would be shocked by the modern innovations, and not just electricity, airplanes, and iPhones. Arabic as an ...

A history of a language that was once spoken from Egypt to Afghanistan and played an important role in the creation of great religious writings. Show more Aramaic is a language that for some three ...

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. The linguist, ...

Unexpectedly during a group meditation, I heard the "Our Father" prayer in original Aramaic, and it resonated in my body like a deep, physical blessing. I wondered, is this is how it sounded from ...