F or nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

Scattered across remote mountain villages, Syriac-Aramaic farmers were less cosmopolitan than the integrated Armenians. Violence began in the 1840s, killing thousands.

Where Syriac is a variety of Aramaic, the language of the "Old Syriac" manuscripts is too young and physically removed to be Christ’s language, and actually has features that we know that Christ ...

The Assyrian Church of the East has its headquarters in Erbil, northern Iraq. Its official name is the Holy Apostolic ...

Inscriptions, Aramaic Inscriptions, Greek Creator Herzfeld, Ernst, 1879-1948 See more items in Ernst Herzfeld Papers Ernst Herzfeld Papers / Series 4: Photographic Files Extent 1 Glass negative (b&w, ...

Fr. Toni Kasih reads the Aramaic inscription on the Table of Life used on the altar at St. Mary’s Syriac Orthodox Church of Shrewsbury. The item came from St. Mary’s Church in Jerusalem in ...

During his pastoral visit to Turkey, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan ordains a priest at the Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Mardin, the first in more than 110 years.

Some 120,000 Christians in Germany speak Aramaic, thought to be the language spoken by Jesus Christ. Efforts are underway to keep the language alive. The Syriac Orthodox Mor Petrus & Paulus ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...