Aramaic is an ancient Semitic language similar to Hebrew. It was used by the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires and some parts of the Bible were written in it. Jesus also spoke Aramaic. The language is still used in some parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. Jewish culture in Israel contained written records in both Aramaic and Hebrew. The name comes from Aram, grandson of Noah. Some Jewish marriage and divorce documents and prayers are written in Aramaic. The Bar Mitzvah ceremony is named after the language. Parts of the Old Testament were written in Aramaic, while some scholars argue that parts of the New Testament were originally written in Syriac.
Aramaic is an ancient biblical language. It is one of the Semitic languages, which also includes Hebrew, Arabic, Ethiopic, and the ancient Assyrian and Babylonian language of Akkadian. Aramaic is very similar to Hebrew.
Writings in Aramaic that are nearly three thousand years old have been discovered. The Assyrians first used the language. Aramean royalty lived in the Assyrian Empire in what is now Turkey and Syria. The Babylonian and Persian empires also used it. Some passages of the Bible were written in Aramaic and, according to research, Jesus also spoke this language.
Early Jewish culture in Israel contained written records in both Aramaic and Hebrew. Aramaic was used by Jews in ancient times for legal and religious writings and the script used to write was ultimately written in Hebrew. The Christian version of the language was called Syriac. Some parts of countries such as Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey still use some branches of the language today. Even Kurdish Jews use it.
The name of this language comes from Aram, grandson of the biblical Noah. Some Jewish marriage documents, called ketubah, as well as some divorce documents, called Get, are written in it, as are some Jewish prayers.
According to the Talmud, when a Jewish boy turns 13, he is considered a man as he is now deemed capable of handling his religion. The event is marked by a ceremony called a Bar Mitzvah. Bar means “son” in Aramaic and Mitzvah means “commandment” in Hebrew. The female version of a Bar Mitzvah is called a Bat Mitzvah as Bat means “daughter” in Aramaic.
Parts of Daniel, Ezra, Jerimiah, and Genesis in the Old, or Original, Testament were written in Aramaic, while the rest of the passages were written in Hebrew. The New Testament is said to have been written in Greek, but some biblical scholars argue that at least parts of the New Testament were originally written in Aramaic. They argue that some passages of the New Testament were probably written in Syriac.
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