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The Galilean Aramaic Lord’s Prayer @ Christ Church

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Lecture Advert

Dates & Times:

Sunday May 4th at 9:15 am, and Saturday May 24 at 11 am at Christ Church New Brunswick.

Information:

Galilean Aramaic, the language of Christ, is an obscure dialect that has nearly been lost to time and some well-intentioned negligence. In this lecture, Steve Caruso discusses the history of the tongue, a careful reconstruction of the Lord’s Prayer that gives insight into wordplay lost through translation, and what the next steps towards preserving the language for future generations are.

Price:

$5 suggested donation to Christ Church New Brunswick, but no one will be turned away.

Registration:

Please use the links below to register for the event and get directions. Registration is free:

Visit the Events page for more upcoming Aramaic events.

Ma’loula Recaptured by Syrian Forces

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Syrian troops loyal to president Bashar al-Assad have recaptured the ancient Christian town of Maaloula, according to military sources and state TV.

The military action follows seizure of the rebel-held Syrian border town of Rankous, in the strategically located Qalamoun region, which deprives the opposition their last major base in the area and cuts off a former supply line for weapons and fighters from neighbouring Lebanon.

Read more here.

Peace,
-Steve

Considering a Merger…

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Blog-Merger

So, I’m presently thinking long and hard about merging The Aramaic Blog and AramaicNT.org (The Aramaic New Testament) permanently.

Over at The Aramaic Blog, I get a heck of a lot of traffic, but I haven’t been doing much with it lately. However, here The Aramaic New Testament, has a lot going for it, it’s on an up-to-date self-hosted WordPress install so I have much more control, it looks spiffier, it hosts all of my Aramaic courseware and translations, and it’s really where I wish to expand upon over the next year. Both often overlap in their purview so much that I’ve often found myself debating which blog to post something new to.

Historically they were separate because The Aramaic Blog had more of an academic focus where AramaicNT.org had more of a theological focus. However, when I re-designed AramaicNT.org it became much more academically centered with fewer personal theological elements. Since then, I only tend to expound theologically on my personal blog, so the need for two Aramaic “spots” is no longer an issue.

So, if a merger is to happen, I would be taking all of the articles on The Aramaic Blog and adding them here to The Aramaic New Testament and setting up the proper redirects so that when folks go looking for the old articles, they’ll land on the new pages.

What do you, dear readers, think?

Peace,
-Steve