The Syrian government sent reinforcements Friday to the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, where rebels have battled regime troops this week. Maaloula, a scenic village of about ...

Aramaic is one of the world's oldest languages, ... Mass is celebrated in a mix of Arabic and Aramaic, the Semitic language thought to have been used by Jesus to preach to his followers.

Part of the same Semitic language family as Arabic and Hebrew, Aramaic originated in the city-states around Damascus almost 1,000 years before Christ. It spread across the Fertile Crescent ...

The Arabic verb is cognate to the older Hebrew and Aramaic. The Arabic حماس ḥamās usually means “to be hard,” “strict,” or “rigorous.” See BDB 329.

It is important to mention that Arabic originated in the Arabic peninsula, the southern part of the Middle East, whereas the historic languages of the Fertile Crescent are Aramaic, Assyrian ...

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, with some dating back to the time of their ancient authorship, scientists from the University of Groningen in the ...

Judeo-Syrian Arabic is a linguistic relic of Syria’s Jewish past, blending the Levantine Arabic spoken by the majority ...

View A Decorated Song of Songs with Aramaic and Arabic Translations, Scribe Mordechai ben Baruch ben David ben Moses ben Benjamin, Baghdad, 1835 on artnet. Browse more upcoming and past Decorative Art ...

In fact, in many countries that we call Arab today, Jews lived and spoke Hebrew, then Aramaic, then Arabic, long before Islam even existed. Israel must fight for its survival.

Many of the Dead Sea Scrolls are much older than academics previously thought, a new study claims. Scientists from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands utilized artificial intelligence ...