As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The transcription of the Aramaic words into English characters is not meant to be a formal, scholarly transliteration." ...

His idea of a “proper” language would have been Aramaic, which ruled what he knew as the world and served, between 600 and 200 B.C.E., as the lingua franca from Greece and Egypt, across ...

Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus Christ, is still heard here today, 2,000 years later. Given the jumbled history and geography of the place, the language sounds somewhat like Arabic ...

Aramaic is one of the world's oldest languages, and one that scholars believe was spoken by Jesus Christ more than 2000 years ago. Earlier this year, Aramaic was heard by large audiences in the ...

If Jacob Hanikhe has his way, it will also remain one of the few places where Aramaic, an ancient tongue found throughout the Talmud and Gospels, is a living language. An Aramaic inscription on a ...

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used. The town is also home to Syria's two ...

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, an old man in his 80s or 90s ...

Members of a group of Aramaic speakers gather at a local social club in the northern Israeli village of Jish (photo credit: REUTERS) In the green hills of the Galilee, where Jesus is said to have ...

But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where residents still use a dialect of Aramaic — the language Jesus is believed to have used and in which much of Jewish ...