JERUSALEM - An ancient, dying language gets 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 ...

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Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

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, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered six new inscriptions in Jesus’ language, Aramaic, at Zernaki Tepe, a 3,000-year-old ancient city located in the region that is now eastern Turkey’s Van Province. The ...

Beleaguered pilgrimage destination that still speaks Aramaic just one of many cities eclipsing Rio de Janeiro. In a beleaguered Syrian city where many Christians still speak the language of Jesus, ...

For most of our lives, we’ve known the Son of God by one name: Jesus. It’s what we’re taught from the beginning — and honestly, when you’re told someone’s name is something, you rarely stop to ...

On a hot August day in the Galilee, a group of schoolchildren in the Arab Christian village of Jish counted diligently, from one to 10, after their instructor. But the words, though similar to Arabic ...

BEIRUT >> Suhail Gabriel was in bed when Islamic State militants stormed his village in eastern Syria, firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. Gabriel rushed his wife and daughter onto his ...