MAALOULA, Syria — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents ...

As the news broke last week that a fragment of what could be the earliest copy of the Gospel of Mark, the oldest of the four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and central to the ...

MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Church bells echoed across the rocky slopes of this ancient Syrian town on a cold Sunday morning. But few families remained. Maaloula is one of the world’s few places where ...

The name of “Jesus” is of less age than most of the oldest churches in Christianity. The name Messiah in the original text of ...

“The final form of the Greek text of the New Testament is what I have to deal with. In other words, I’m suspicious of the whole question of the role of Aramaic. What effect can it have other than to ...

JISH, Israel – 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 ...

A strip mall 15 minutes down the highway from Manhattan is the last place I expected to hear the language spoken by Jesus Christ. But northern New Jersey is one of the places where Syriac Christians, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maaloula is one of the world's few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used.