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"Most scholars believe that the language Jesus spoke in day-to-day life was a dialect of Aramaic, which Jesus’s ancestors had learned during the period of the Exile and its aftermath, when large numbers of Judeans lived in Mesopotamia and migrated across the Fertile Crescent. As noted, Abgar spoke Aramaic and was king of what would later become a center of Aramaic literature. We do not know whether or not Jesus could speak and write Greek, which was much more widely spoken in the eastern side of the Roman Empire in Jesus’s day. Because the claim in the Abgar legend is that Jesus wrote to someone in Aramaic rather than Greek, it is sometimes noted in popular discourse that Jesus could have communicated with Abgar directly. "
Drought and overpopulation helped destroy Assyrian Empire, study says. Researchers see parallels with modern Syria and Iraq, and caution other regions also facing weather stresses.
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Significant steps were taken earlier this year regarding the future for Assyrians in Turkey's Tur Abdin region as two Turkish ministers agreed to form special commissions to look into Assyrian land and property issues.
Drought and overpopulation helped destroy Assyrian Empire, study says. Researchers see parallels with modern Syria and Iraq, and caution other regions also facing weather stresses.
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"Gabriel sells homemade Assyrian wine out
A newly published scientific study has shed light on the deep culinary traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, revealing that complex bread-making practices existed in Beth-Nahrin nearly 9,000 years ago.
Michael Huffman
