aramaic

I find it fascinating to examine all the various views of eschatology and how they originated. There is so much confusion that has resulted from everyone having parts of the truth but never the whole truth. My research hasn't just been about trying to find the facts but also the history of how...

1) Christ was a poet, not just in heart but also in actual speech. If we bring the Gospel text back into the original spoken language of Aramaic we find there are many poetic devices used by Christ in his sermons, parables and sayings. This is significant because many people I think have...

I've been interested in this priest and his music for a few years since I like chanting and I also like studying the history of hymnography coming from Judaism onward into Christianity. This priest is Assyrian in nationality but at some point became EO. His music does not sound like...

In the movie 'The Passion of the Christ', there is an interesting touch during Jesus' trial: Pilate speaks Aramaic to Jesus, who then responds in Latin. Pilate looks taken aback for a second, then continues thereafter speaking Latin to Jesus. It is unlikely that Pilate would have spoken...

I'm Oriental Orthodox from Toronto; my family is originally from Oraq but fortunately got out many years ago. My main interest is the persecuted Christians of the Middle East. Intellectually Syriac and Aramaic studies (the hymns of St. Ephrem the Syrian, St. Jacob of Sarugh, Mar Narsai, and...