In 1990, excavations of an ancient monastery in the Negev Desert of southern Israel revealed a sprawling mosaic dating back ...

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Aaron Koller from New York has been appointed to the historic role which was inaugurated by Henry VIII in 1540 ...

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These included Aramaic, a northwest Semitic language ... the original language of the New Testament and the lingua franca of Levant at the time; and Latin, the language of the Roman Empire and ...

Credit: Aristeas/Unknown author / Public domain Hebrew, the original language of the Jews, ceased to be a spoken language during the exile or post-exile period, and Aramaic became ... books of the Old ...

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 ...

Now residents and clergymen hope that Syria’s new leaders will protect them and their efforts to pass down Christian tradition and the Aramaic language. Many people who had fled the town have ...

That allowed the message of the Bible to spread and be understood by many more people than if they had stuck to Hebrew and/or Aramaic. And so too, with the writing of the New Testament. In order for ...

As per experts, when the New Testament was translated to Greek, the scholars tried to accommodate the Aramaic name but the phonetic inadequacies proved to be a challenge. Hence, an alternative was ...

Richard Hays, George Washington Ivey distinguished professor emeritus of New Testament, died Friday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, following a decade-long battle with pancreatic cancer.