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• In this brief timeline, then, we have seen that Aramaic has a continuous connection with Jews and the Land of Israel, with Jesus, with Josephus, and across the whole of the Middle East and beyond, all the way from the very beginnings of history, all the way through to the fourth century, when Jews are busy writing the voluminous records of the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds (both of which are in Aramaic!)
• And so, by the time that Jerome translated the Latin Vulgate, we see a clear split between Aramaic STILL being used by Jews in Israel, and Aramaic being used across the Middle East and beyond (further east), and Greek and Latin now becoming the preferred languages in Europe, as decreed by the Roman Catholic Church.