Showing posts from August, 2014
Professor Shabo Talay leads a project that has received a 450,000 Euro grant to secure the future of the Aramaic language Turoyo. A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE: The Turoyo language is mainly spoken by the Christian minority in pa…
Christian Mosaic,Syria The siege of northern Iraq against the nation's ethnic and religious minorities by jihadist terror group Islamic State threatens to significantly alter the composition of the nation and write yet …
A house in the Iraqi city of Mosul is tagged with the letter "Noon," the first letter of the word "Nasara," an Arabic term for Christians (photo: AFP/Newscom) By Rob Eshman http://www.jewishjourn…
ERBIL, Iraq - There are important developments in the Iraq crisis. It appears Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will step down. There had been concern that after eight years he would try to hold on to power by military force. A…
Here's an interesting one and half minute video about the emegergence and spread of the Aramaic script through its descendatns. Aramaic evolved from Phoenician and then a dozen or more scripts sprung from it or were infl…
Selected from Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures, this video presents all material from Chapter 2: Vowels with Miles V. Van Pelt. Basics of Biblical Aramaic Video Lectures provides 22 easy-to-follow lessons (on 3 DVDs…
