On Thursday, Nov. 5, Sabar will read from "My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq" at the Capitola Book Cafe. It's a book that will appeal to those who thirst after secret, dusty corners of history, biography,...

[Tel Dan Stele from Wikimedia Commons] Although this is not strictly an Aramaic issue, it is one that is very near and dear to the field of Aramaic Studies, and almost every other ancient...

Yesterday, over on Jim West's blog there is a guest post in honor of Maurice Casey's birththday which left me grinning: "Happy Birthday Maurice, a kind and considerate, whole-heartedly generous and incredibly honest, never rude but always pitiless,...

New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic, one of the Middle East's oldest continuously spoken and written languages. Members of the West Semitic...

The Syrian-Japanese excavation mission discovered a number of individual tombs with skeletons of children inside, and the hole of the grave inside the tomb, the first of its kind to be discovered in Palmyra. The mission also unearthed an earthenware...