Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...

Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic. While Christ preached sermons and made his cry from the cross in a dialect spoken in Roman Palestine, another dialect of Aramaic developed further east in Edessa ...

To facilitate administrative tasks of the Assyrian Empire Aramaic was made the second official language in 752 B.C. The Empire chancelleries adopted a simple standard form of the Aramaic for ...