Attempts To Revive Language Spoken in Jesus’ Time

By Diaa Hadid 29/5/2012 Centuries after it disappeared from the Middle East, efforts are being made to revive the ancient Aramaic language many believe Jesus spoke. The villages of Beit Jala and Jish found inspiration and assistance in an unlikely place: Sweden. There, Aramaic-speaking communities who descended from the Middle East sought to keep their language alive