Pope Francis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded words on Monday over the language spoken by Jesus two millennia ago. "Jesus was here, in this land. He spoke Hebrew," Netanyahu told ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The survival of Aramaic, once the Middle East’s lingua franca, is in jeopardy amid regional turmoil. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has listed it as an endangered ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 33-51 (19 pages) During a recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan I recorded texts in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of ...