Aramaic is a language that for some three thousand years facilitated the exchange of ideas across large tracts of the Middle East and Asia. In its heyday it was the main official and written language ...
Laura Jahanara Mangus doesn’t feel like a musician. No, really. Never mind that her piece “ABWOON, Call to Prayer” — a haunting rendition of “The Lord’s Prayer” in the ancient Aramaic tongue spoken by ...
What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...
It was a sunny morning in May, and I was in a car with a linguist and a tax preparer trolling the suburbs of Chicago for native speakers of Aramaic, the 3,000-year-old language of Jesus. The linguist, ...
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