Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as ...

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The statement confirmed that: "The Syriac language is an independent Semitic language belonging to the Aramaic branch, with a reliable history extending over thousands of years," and added that: "The ...

For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and cultural language. Over the centuries, they produced an extensive corpus of ...

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An image of a folio (a page) from a 9th century CE Syriac manuscript from the British Library, providing a good example of the practice of excerpting, one of the non-authorial literary practices ...

Inside the monastery, there is ancient inscription written in Syriac Aramaic that reads: 'his is the house of Mary, mother of John, also called Mark. It is the place of the Last Supper of Our ...