- JISH, Israel -- Two villages in the Holy Lands tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. (Huffington Post)
- The £14million handwritten gold lettered tome, penned in Jesus native Aramaic language, is said to contain his early teachings and a prediction of the Prophets coming. (Daily Mail)
- A key sentence is, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these? The Aramaic version reads "Jonah." Following the Gospel of St. Matthew Simon Peter is Simon Bar Jonah. (Examiner)
- Why are so many women named Mary in the Gospels? The Aramaic name Maryam (Miriam in Hebrew) was popular among Jews in Palestine during the first century; being named after Moses sister was auspicious. (Huffington Post)
- (JTA) -- A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English. (JTA)
- Written in Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic, the gospel even predicts the coming of the last Islamic messiah, the report adds. (Daily Mail)
- John begins his Gospel,"In the beginning was the Omer, the Omer was with God, and the Omer was God." "Omer" in Aramaic means both "Word" and "Lamb." Our Cathedral mural contains a figure representing the Omer, the Lamb of God. (Examiner)
- Hes chief executive not only of the vampire government but of their religion, too. My first day on set, I recited a prayer in Aramaic, says Meloni. No separation of church and state here. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
- A temple to the deified Alexander as well as an inscription in Greek and Aramaic by the Indian Emperor Ashoka, who lived a few decades later, have been discovered in Kandahar. (Worldnews.com)
- They were written mostly on parchment (animal skin, ewww), without a Word program, keyboard or even spell-check, which would have been greatly challenged as the Scrolls are in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. (Philadelphia Daily News)
Monday, May 28, 2012
Aramaic
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