Learn the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic - Introduction

 

Aramaic Course - Introduction

 

I thought I would share with you 

How I First heard about Aramaic.

What does Aramaic mean to me?

What is Aramaic?

Why I want to teach you the Lords Prayer in Aramaic?

 

I started to hear Aramaic in my Maronite church the liturgy till today is in Aramaic. 

We the maronites we belong to the ancient Syriac Maronite Church in Jerusalem, but The Maronites our name is from the Syriac Christian Saint Maron, some of whose followers migrated to the area of Mount Lebanon from their previous place of residence which was located around the area of Antioch in Syria, and established the nucleus of the Syriac Maronite Church.

 

My family are Maronite Aramaic speaking Christians, and we are indigenous to the Holy Land. We have an ancient unbroken footprint in following the steps of Jesus and the pages of the Bible from the early church until today.

 

All my ancestors were Christians from Lebanon, going all the way back to the early church. Our language is Aramaic with a Syrian dialect. It is closely related to the Aramaic of Jesus; He spoke a Galilean dialect. I also learned to speak Hebrew—it was easy for me, because Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic are all Semitic languages and are closely related to each other. In His daily life, Jesus also spoke Hebrew and mostly Aramaic, so it helps me to understand the Scripture better.

 

The early believers who formed the Maronite church are the closest geographic neighbors to the Jewish believers in Israel, and from the beginning, they adopted the style of praying from the Jerusalem Church. Known as the “liturgy of saint James,” it has been used continuously by the Maronite Church until today in Aramaic, and it does not have the outside influence of the west like the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Biblical Scriptures Jesus spoke with the syro Phoenician women and she believed in his message. (Mark 7:24-30)

 

The Syrophoenician Woman

²⁴ Now Jesus got up and went from there to the region of Tyre. And when He had entered a house, He wanted no one to know about it; and yet He could not escape notice. ²⁵ But after hearing about Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet. ²⁶ Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician descent. And she repeatedly asked Him to cast the demon out of her daughter

 

 

Peter and Paul evangelized the Phoenicians, whom they affiliated to the ancient patriarchate of Antioch.

 

The Maronites have an identity, and their national ID is Aramaic Phoenician. It is so interesting. I took the DNA ancestry test, and I am 100% from the Middle East, from modern Lebanon and Syria. This means my ancestors were originally Phoenician.

 

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