Herb Jahn spent much of his early life on the tent revival circuit playing religious jump tunes for hellfire-and-brimstone preachers such as Aimee Semple McPherson and the 11-year-old evangelist ...

One local man is working with an organization of translators to translate the Old Testament into modern day Aramaic. Kenneth Bunge, pastor of First Lutheran Church in Lufkin, has had a desire to work ...

A Facebook post paraphrases a translation of the Lord's Prayer by mystic, author, and scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz. As Douglas-Klotz wrote in "Prayers of the Cosmos" (published in 1990), "The ...

In the hills of the Galilee, the lush region in the Holy Land where it's said that Jesus Christ grew up, residents of the town of Jish are preparing to celebrate Christmas Mass in the language Jesus ...

"Ah-bwoon da-bwash-maya. Net-ka-dahsh schmahh." The group of five haltingly recited the ancient words. The rough English translation: "Our Father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name." Saying ...

Nonetheless, in positing a difference between the apparent synonyms eid and sahad, Malbim (to Job 16:19) suggests that eid ...

A history of a language that was once spoken from Egypt to Afghanistan and played an important role in the creation of great religious writings. Show more Aramaic is a language that for some three ...

Israel's prime minister has verbally sparred with the Pope over which language Christ might have spoken. Several languages were used in the places where Jesus lived - so which would he have known, ...