Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Aramaic is a language that for some three thousand years facilitated the exchange of ideas across large tracts of the Middle East and Asia. In its heyday it was the main official and written language ...

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The 20% of Maalula's inhabitants who can speak the language are over 60 years old George Zaarour, a specialist in the Aramaic language, uses a magnifying glass to decipher Aramaic script in the Syrian ...

AMMAN — In order to have centralised information about inscriptions from Ancient North Arabia, a group of scholars created “The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia” (OCIANA). The ...

A Christian village in Israel is teaching Aramaic in an effort to revive the ancient language that Jesus spoke - centuries after it all but disappeared from the Middle East. Maronite children from ...

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 disappeared from the Middle ...

You get asked some pretty strange things when you speak the language of Jesus. The calls come to my father’s office at UCLA several times a year, often around Christmas or Easter. “Professor Yona ...