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• But Aramaic did not stop there. Aramaic was used all throughout the Middle East for almost one and a half thousand years after the birth of Jesus of Nazareth.
• We have seen that Aramaic was very much still in use when the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds were written in Aramaic (second to fourth centuries A.D.), when the Armenian Bible was created (early fifth century A.D.), and when the Arabic Bible was created (around the 8th century A.D. onwards).
• But what happened in history after that?