But the presentation of Jesus in the New Testament is itself a ... presumably provided an Aramaic translation-paraphrase of the text, and then commented on it. The words he read were from Isaiah ...

Jesus participated in both the Aramaic and Hebrew culture and its literatures as well as the kind of Hellenistic Greek that he needed to do his business in his travel and his ministry.

Americans also love their car-bumper stickers, especially ones that piously ask, “What would Jesus do?” The question acts as ...

For 1,000 years, Aramaic was written and spoken right across Middle East. It was the language spoken by Jesus and his followers. The Jewish holy book, the Talmud, was written in Aramaic ...

Jesus then gave a loud cry and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain hanging in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart, the graves broke open ...

The "Brothers and Sisters" of Jesus: Anything New? – Father François Rossier ... They concede that if we can suppose an original Hebrew or Aramaic that preceded the Greek text, we may accept that the ...

Since Jesus himself left no writings, we hear his Aramaic voice filtered through Greek texts, written 60-100 years after his ...

Just hours before his arrest and Crucifixion, according to the Gospels, Jesus prayed in a garden called Gethsemane, probably from the Aramaic words for oil press. Today many pilgrims come to this ...

For example, Catholic Christians believe that the miracle of transubstantiation take place during the Eucharist, where the bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.

Cephas is from the word for ROCK in Aramaic, the language Jesus and the Apostles commonly spoke. In John 1:42, Jesus renames Simon as Cephas: "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called ...

Instead of organizing historical events into a chronology, John presents Jesus in all of his theological grandeur. He gives us fewer stories than the other gospels, but those he does present are ...