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• And so Jesus spoke Aramaic, along with Josephus after him, along with the disciples, along with the people Jesus preached to. Aramaic in the Middle East was very much here to stay - for at least another one thousand years. Even into the times of the Crusades, Aramaic was still widely spoken in the Middle East, until itself supplanted by Arabic - another Semitic language.
• It is to Aramaic, then, that we must turn, if we want to get back to the Bible, to the language in which Jesus preached, and the language in which we can find rest for our souls in this violent and adulterous generation.