Initially, his name would have transitioned from Aramaic into Hebrew ... did not even exist in the alphabet during Jesus' ...

In contrast, Aramaic was written using an alphabet of just 22 signs ... an important language in the Middle East in the time of Jesus. But was Aramaic 'the language of Jesus'?

Rather, Jesus the historical figure likely conversed in Aramaic, the native language of Judeah, the region in the Roman Empire where scholars believe the messiah and his disciples lived (now part ...

Jesus would have spoken the local dialect, referred to by scholars as Palestinian Jewish Aramaic, which was the form common to that region, Amar says. Aramaic began to die out in the 7th century ...

Members of a group of Aramaic speakers gather at a local social club in the northern Israeli village of Jish (photo credit: REUTERS) In the green hills of the Galilee, where Jesus is said to have ...

JISH, Israel – Two villages in the Holy Land’s tiny Christian community are teaching Aramaic in an ambitious effort to revive the language that Jesus spoke, centuries after it all but ...

The limestone burial box for bones - called an ossuary - bears an inscription reading "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" in the Aramaic language. The writing style, and the fact that ossuary ...