“We want to speak the language that Jesus spoke,” said Carla Hadad, a 10-year-old Jish girl who frequently waved her arms to answer questions in Aramaic from school teacher Mona Issa during a ...

Aramaic, which was dominant in the region when Jesus was alive, died out elsewhere many ... and though more than 80 percent still speak Aramaic, barely 2,000 can speak it fluently ...

“We want to speak the language that Jesus spoke,” said Carla Hadad, a 10-year-old Jish girl who frequently waved her arms to answer questions in Aramaic from school teacher Mona Issa during a ...

Jesus spoke it, but Aramaic was dying out until residents of a Syrian village embraced the preservation of their forebears' language. By Brooke Anderson, Chronicle Foreign Service Aug 12, 2008.

Not Greek or Hebrew but Aramaic Had it been only the Jews who spoke Aramaic, it might well have passed out of common usage. Aramaic was the language of the Middle East at the time, among Jews and ...

MAALULA, Syria -- In this quaint stone village perched high in the mountains above Damascus, the language of Jesus Christ has somehow, miraculously, endured through the millennia. Aramaic, which ...

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, with a ...

Your Holiness, Bibi was right – Jesus spoke Hebrew! The Pope expressed a now disproven belief that Aramaic was the only language in wide use during Jesus' time May 28, 2014, 3:43 PM ...

One of the odder moments of Pope Francis’ recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land was an exchange with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The subject was what language Jesus spoke. According ...

An ancient, dying language got a new life on American movie screens this week. Some linguists, who fear the language spoken by Jesus could vanish within a few decades, hope for a boost from Mel ...

And how did the language fare after Jesus? In 1933, archaeologists discovered Aramaic inscriptions in a Jewish synagogue built around 245 AD in the Roman outpost of Dura Europos, located on the ...