An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used ...

When the Gospel writers came to write the New Testament in Greek, they used a similar process to convert the Aramaic name Yeshua into something more familiar. By this time the Jewish Bible ...

with the exception of St. Matthew's Gospel which - according to the unanimous testimony of Christian antiquity - was written in Hebrew or Aramaic. The books of the Bible were very likely written ...

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 ...