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The Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents
More than a decade ago, Amir Harrak spent three sweltering summers in his native Iraq, photographing inscriptions written in the Classical Syriac language. The University of Toronto researcher had set...
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2015 Summer Syriac Course at Beth Mardutho
This past year’s Syriac course at Beth Mardutho was apparently a hit, so next years’ courses are confirmed. Read more here. Peace, -Steve
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Israel Recognizes “Aramean” as an Ethnicity
Efforts to legally differentiate between Christian and Muslim Arabs bore fruit on Tuesday as Interior Minister Gideon Saar ordered that the population registry recognize a separate Aramean...
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Shakespeare in Early Modern English vs. Jesus in Galilean Aramaic?
No, this isn’t some epic battle or what not, but more a brilliant metaphor for what can be seen when one looks at the New Testament through Aramaic eyes. When one recites Shakespeare in its original...
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The Three Little Pigs in Galilean Aramaic
The Three Little Pigs’ proof arrived yesterday and I’ve sent out all of the final changes. Fairly soon it will be available for purchase on Amazon.com and other major bookseller outlets! In the...
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Now Available on Amazon.com: The Three Little Pigs in Galilean Aramaic
Well, The Three Little Pigs in Galilean Aramaic is finally up on Amazon.com (click here). It’ll also be coming soon to Kindle, Nook, and iBooks. Hurray! Peace, -Steve
View ArticleChanging Themes Up Again
In order to make way for the new lessons, I need to fiddle with the website theme a bit. The one I’m presently using, although it looks nice, interferes with a bit of code necessary for the new...
View ArticleNew Lessons Preview
For those of you interested in what the new lessons will look like, here’s the page of the first one as it’s going up. If all goes well it should be ready to go with audio by tonight or Sunday....
View ArticleBezalel Porten at #SBLaar14 and a New Volume of Aramaic Ostraca
Folk interested in Aramaic ostraca should take note of this: On Friday morning, November 21, at 8:25 a.m., in the Diamond 2 room at the Westin San Diego, during the ASOR meetings, Prof. Porten will be...
View ArticleUnit 2 Lesson 1 Now Up! “Saying Hello”
Unit 2 Lesson 1 is now complete and up in two parts! However, I first recommend that you view the Lesson Tutorial over here first in order to get how it works. Peace, -Steve
View ArticleAnother “Lost Gospel”? Naw.
You’ve probably been seeing this making the rounds in the news. A lost Syriac manuscript that depicts Jesus and Mary Magdalene? In a word: NO. Robert Cargill sums it all up as good as I could myself...
View ArticleLesson on Aramaic Numbers Up!
The bulk of the next lesson on counting is up! Click here to view it. Presently the lesson is complete for numbers between 1 and 100, and — where the slides are up — I’m putting the final edits on the...
View ArticleGalilean Aramaic Workshop & Classes (In-Person and Online)
So, now it is time to announce an upcoming worshop on Galilean Aramaic in March as well as start finding what times work for both in-person and online Galilean Aramaic classes. Polls for the classes...
View ArticleConversational Galilean Index Page Fixed
Quick Update: Apparently there was a glitch on the index page for the Conversational Galilean class that killed it. It has been fixed and things are back up and running. Peace, -Steve The post...
View ArticleAnother Update: Apparently More Problems
Yep, so the latest WordPress update killed some functionality with the plugin I wrote to display Aramaic text and thereby knocked out each and every Aramaic lesson or page that has Aramaic text larger...
View ArticleText Fix Update
Update: The new parser seems to be working properly now! Please tell me if you see any glitches in the display of Aramaic text on the site. Peace, -Steve The post Text Fix Update appeared first on The...
View ArticleGospel of Mark Collation
Working on The Aramaic Words Translation has stalled. This is mostly due to a matter of tools to work with, as in my attempts at reconstruction I’ve had to flip back and forth between several sources...
View Articleדעוותי בסוריסטון
יומדן אנה כַתיב חד כתַב דבלו״ג בסוריסטון בגין אנה מהימן דאֵן אנה יכיל מעביד כתבין יתיר דיהוי לכולכון יתיר מיקרי אנה יכיל מכַתּיש עם מילין חדתן ואשכח לאורחין חדתין מימור כן וכן ומיכתוב כן וכן הכה על...
View ArticleSyriac Keyboard for Mac OS X
I made this a long time ago and use it every day, and there has been some recent interest in getting a copy out there so here it is: ⇒ SyriacPhonetic.rsrc ⇐ You’ll also need Syriac fonts such as Meltho...
View ArticleLectionary Reading: John 1:1-18
So I’m collating various extant forms of the New Testament in Aramaic to help towards my work at reconstructing any underlying Galilean Aramaic and I’ve decided to try and keep up with the weekly...
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