From October, the Shillong Chamber Choir (SCC) has been on a virtual hunt of sorts. The attempt to record a hymn in ancient Aramaic — the now-dead language believed to have been spoken by Christ ...

Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ features two languages that haven't been used in common speech for centuries -- Latin and the even less familiar Aramaic. NPR's Renee Montagne ...

A Facebook post paraphrases a translation of the Lord's Prayer by mystic, author, and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz. As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The ...

St. Catherine's Church is waiting for the extraordinary concert - heavenly music in Jesus' native Aramaic language will be performed by Assyrian monks from the Monastery of the Thirteen Holy Fathers ...

A history of a language that was once spoken from Egypt to Afghanistan and played an important role in the creation of great religious writings. Show more Aramaic is a language that for some three ...

JISH Israel (Reuters) - In the green hills of the Galilee, where Jesus is said to have preached two thousand years ago, a group of Aramaic speakers looking to revive the language of Christ are ...

Egyptian myths, tales, and mortuary texts -- Sumerian myths and epic tales -- Akkadian myths and epics -- Hittite myths, epics, and legends -- Ugaritic myths, epics, and legends -- Collections of laws ...

It is thought to have been spoken by Jesus Christ and his disciples more than 2,000 years ago. But now Aramaic, an ancient language related to both Hebrew and Arabic, is threatened with extinction as ...