Many people are (or ought to be) interested in learning the language Jesus spoke as his native tongue, and in which his words were first uttered: Aramaic. It is also the language in which a few parts ...

Over at the Aramaic Blog there’s news of an online Introduction to Aramaic course being offered at a discount to those who want to sign up early: An Introduction to Aramaic contains a full ...

Are there any email newsletters that have something like a little bit of Aramaic every day that will help me build up an unkelus and gemara vocabulary The best way is learning gemora with artscroll. i ...

If the pandemic’s isolation of us all persists for another three years, you’ll be happy I recommended all three of these volumes to you. But more likely it will simply be the case that they will be ...

You’d think that in Bethlehem, where the New Testament says Jesus was born, his language, Aramaic, would live on today… not so. “It’s been forgotten here in the Holy Land,” principal of Mar Aphrem ...

It is the language that Christ spoke, but is regarded as "endangered" with ever fewer scattered groups of native speakers. But in Oxford, Aramaic has been flourishing again, with a course in the ...

Marian Shanees had never seen the letters of her native language of Aramaic. Now, a new program in Maaloula, one of the few places where Aramaic is still spoken, will change that. "This is the first ...

Ilyana Barqil wears skinny jeans, boots and a fur-lined jacket, handy for keeping out the cold in the Qalamoun mountains north of Damascus. She likes TV quiz shows and American films and enjoys ...

A strip mall 15 minutes down the highway from Manhattan is the last place I expected to hear the language spoken by Jesus Christ. But northern New Jersey is one of the places where Syriac Christians, ...