Aramaic studies are scientific studies of the Aramaic languages and literature. As a specific field within Semitic studies, Aramaic studies are closely related to similar disciplines, like Hebraic ...
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 ...
Did you notice how great we are?" Jesus showed them what greatness looks like when He brought a child into their midst. In Aramaic, the word for child and servant is the same. Life is a journey from ...
In today’s Gospel, the Lord Jesus asks a crucial and probing question: “What is most central in your life?” The Gospel text opens: “Jesus and his disciples left from there and began a ...
using the very same Aramaic word, Ephphatha – be opened that Jesus uses in the gospel. The practice would now doubtless be condemned by Health and Safety, but it was a powerful reminder that ...
Did Jesus love the adulteress and the prostitute? Absolutely. There are two remarkable stories showing how Jesus cared for all types of people. The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of ...