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The Elephantine papyri is a body of texts from 5 B.C. mostly written in Imperial Aramaic from Elephantine-a Jewish fortress on an island in the Upper Nile near Aswan in Persian-ruled Egypt.The name Elephantine is what Greek ca…
"Syriac language" in Syriac is leshana suryaya .In the image below it is written in the Estrangelo script. Syriac was a dialect of Aramaic which first appeared in writting in the 1st century A.D and flourished between…
This is the beginnig of Psalm 102 Jesus Prayer in Syriac. Mar Yeesho Msheeha breh d Alaha rahhem al xattaya Lord Jesus Christ Son of God have mercy on me,a sinner vocabulary Mar-lord Yeesho Msheeha-Jesus Christ…
In the Syriac script a dot is positioned over or under the letter to mark a vowel.If you do not use such a dot sometimes ambiguities arise .Such is the case of the words malka-king and melka-advise.They are written exactly …
The name Martha is thought to come from Hebrew and it means 'mistress'.Here is how it is written in the Aramaic block script (Hebrew) and the Syriac Estrangelo. Martha appears in the New Testament as the sister of Laza…
Fish in Syriac is nuna.In the image below the word is written in Syriac Estrangelo.
The Lamsa Bible is an English translation of the Old and New Testament based on the Syriac Aramaic Peshitta. It was translated by George M Lamsa in 1933 who claimed that his translation of the New Testament is more accurate th…
