Aramaic was a thriving language during the time of Jesus and his disciples. Many of the gospels were written in the Semitic language, along with sections of the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

As a first century resident of Judea, Jesus likely spoke Aramaic, a Semitic language that survives today in small Christian and Jewish pockets in the Middle East.

“This language was spoken more than 2,000 years ago, and it is our duty to protect it,” she said. “It will survive and it must survive.” Originally Published: March 12, 2003 at 1:00 AM CST ...

So Jesus would probably have known some Greek, although the balance of probability is that he was not proficient in it, Katz says. There's no clear evidence that Jesus could write in any language ...

Aramaic, the language of Jesus Christ, has survived for centuries and is still spoken in one place on Earth: the village of Maaloula in Syria, about 60 kilometres northeast of Damascus.

Latin is still a highly revered language and deeply entwined with our own, but it was not the language of Jesus as some uninformed Catholics still believe.

JESUS is produced by the international Christian ministry, Deaf Missions, which has been around since 1970. The ministry reaches out to over 100 countries through 60 denominations.

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Qaraqosh, Tel Kepe and Karamlesh are just three of the Iraqi towns on the Nineveh plains captured in early August by the Islamic State (IS), but they represent the last major concentration of Arama… ...