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Jesus was called Yeshua, not "Jesus" and the difference clarifies "Christ"

The English-speaking world uses him bandied about as “Jesus”, but the letter j did not find its way into English till many ...
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Have people been calling Jesus by another name all along?

“His name would probably have been in Aramaic: Yeshua.” That innocuous sentence, which Professor Dineke Houtman has provided, ...
Los Angeles Times

Aramaic steps briefly into the light

JERUSALEM — An ancient, dying language got a new life on American movie screens this week. Some linguists, who fear the language spoken by Jesus could vanish within a few decades, hope for a boost ...
Columbus Dispatch

Suzette Martinez Standing: The Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic brings about unexpected response

Unexpectedly during a group meditation, I heard the "Our Father" prayer in original Aramaic, and it resonated in my body like a deep, physical blessing. I wondered, is this is how it sounded from ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Arts & Culture Groups Try to Revive Aramaic, Language of Both Abraham, Jesus

What do these three locales have in common: a remote village in Syria; Sydney, Australia; and the Old City of Jerusalem? The answer is: Aramaic, a dominant language in the ancient world. Now, Jews, ...
The Atlantic

The Original Language of the Gospels

MORE than forty years ago an aspiring young English scholar undertook to account for the resemblances and differences in the first three Gospels by the theory that they had all been translated from a ...