Unexpectedly during a group meditation, I heard the "Our Father" prayer in original Aramaic, and it resonated in my body like a deep, physical blessing. I wondered, is this is how it sounded from ...

Home to some of the last speakers of Aramaic, Maaloula was attacked in Syria’s civil war. Its residents are determined to rebuild–and preserve their mother tongue from extinction.

"Ah-bwoon da-bwash-maya. Net-ka-dahsh schmahh." The group of five haltingly recited the ancient words. The rough English translation: "Our Father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name." Saying ...

JISH, Israel – Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from ...

JISH, Israel — Two villages in the Holy Land”s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but disappeared from ...

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 ...