JERUSALEM — An ancient, dying language got 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 ...

Sacramento -- In a small apartment in Sacramento California, there lives a Seventy-two year old Assyrian Deacon named Elisha Simon who spends many of his hours typing away on his computer; translating ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 115, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1995), pp. 33-51 (19 pages) During a recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan I recorded texts in the Christian Neo-Aramaic dialects of ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East’s oldest continuously spoken and ...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. New ...

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 from Mel ...

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To Muslims, the Koran is the very word of God, who spoke through the angel Gabriel to Mohammed: "This book is not to be doubted," the Koran declares unequivocally at its beginning. Scholars and ...

A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth. The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara ...

The Haggadah tells one of the oldest stories of all time: Moses leading the ancient Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. That tale is retold every year in Jewish homes around the world during Passover, ...