Aramaic

Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha).

The Great Persian King Darius I announced that the official language of the western half of the Persian Empire was to be Aramaic.

With the exception of a small minority of Aramaic texts, the books of the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible were all written in Hebrew.

16Jesus said to her, "Mary. " She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni! " (which means Teacher).

Official long-distance communications were written in Aramaic, sent across the empire and then translated from Aramaic upon arrival.

Monotheistic groups continue to live today with a religious heritage, much of which found first expression in Aramaic.

Not pictured are the developments of Aramaic and Nabatean, which led to the modern Arabic script.

Some of the artifacts contained inscriptions in the ancient Aramaic language, it said.

The Persian Empire stretched from Egypt to India, but conducted business in Aramaic, a desert tongue of the Fertile Crescent.

A scan of the ossuaries dating from the Herodian period reveals that many, if not most, were inscribed in Hebrew and Greek, not Aramaic.

Nineveh has Iraq's largest minority of Christians, themselves divided into various sects, some speaking Aramaic, the language of Christ.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

the old testament was written in hebrew , with a sprinkling of aramaic.

Some of the scriptures in the Bible, such as the Book of Daniel, is to use text written in Aramaic.

Northwest Semitic languages: Aramaic language into Canaan and language.

The Arameans, would eventually see their language, Aramaic, supplant Ancient Assyrian because of the technological breakthrough in writing.

The Aramaic language in Padan-aram remained pure, and in the course the common language ( lingua franca), of all the Semitic clans.

His real name is Judah or Judas and Didymus, and Thomas are his nicknames, one Greek and one Semitic or Aramaic.

Most remarkably, Western Neo-Aramaic is still spoken in the village of Ma`loula, and two neighbouring villages, 56 km northeast of Damascus.

Cephas is the same name in Aramaic, the common language of Palestine in Christ's day.

Aramaic for an Orthodox Jew?

BAR reports that, according to Lemaire, the cursive style of Aramaic in which the inscription appears occurred only from 10-70 CE.

The term Aramaic is derived from Aram, the fifth son of Shem, the firstborn of Noah. See Gen. 10: 22.

Aramaic was made the second official language of the Assyrian empire in 752 B.

It reminds us that Aramaic was once the official language of the Persian empire;