Syriac

Why learn Syriac?

Special guest post by Jordash Kiffiak, co-author of Living Christian Aramaic Syriac is not merely the dialect of Aramaic that provides learners with the largest body of Aramaic literature, including a lengthy catalog of Christian texts written in a Semitic language and related to the Bible and the earliest followers of Jesus. Syriac also [...]

By BLC|2017-08-17T10:23:02-07:00August 11th, 2017|ancient language acquisition, Aramaic, Blog, Syriac|Comments Off

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

Semitic influence on an ancient Greek writing has been discussed widely in Biblical Studies and Pseudepigraphical texts. In general, it is quite difficult to go deeper and to differentiate between Hebrew influence and Aramaic influence on a particular Greek text. The new volume, Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley, edd., The Language Environment of First-century [...]

By Randall Buth|2017-06-12T21:31:24-07:00May 5th, 2014|Aramaic, Biblical Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew verb, Blog, Dead Sea Scrolls, Gospel of John, Greek word order, Greek word order, Hebrew in First Century, Mishnaic Hebrew, New Testament, Pseudepigrapha, synoptic gospels, Syriac, ἑβραιστί, ἐγένετο, ευθυς, τότε|Comments Off

Syriac

Why learn Syriac?

Differentiating Hebrew and Aramaic Backgrounds in Greek writings

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