LONDON — Geoffrey Khan had almost given up. A linguist at the University of Cambridge, he was in Tbilisi, Georgia, to find the last speakers of a rare dialect of Aramaic. The first of his three leads, ...

Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ features two languages that haven't been used in common speech for centuries -- Latin and the even less familiar Aramaic. NPR's Renee Montagne ...

Laura Jahanara Mangus doesn’t feel like a musician. No, really. Never mind that her piece “ABWOON, Call to Prayer” — a haunting rendition of “The Lord’s Prayer” in the ancient Aramaic tongue spoken by ...

In the hills of the Galilee, the lush region in the Holy Land where it's said that Jesus Christ grew up, residents of the town of Jish are preparing to celebrate Christmas Mass in the language Jesus ...

It might be one of the most famous names on Earth. But experts now say that 'Jesus Christ' might not be the name of Christianity's central figure after all. Scholars believe that 'Jesus' would have ...