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After Saturday Comes Sunday

After Saturday Comes Sunday

Adelman, Susan

Hardcover

General ChristianityGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1463239041
ISBN13: 9781463239046
Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
Published: Jul 10 2018
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In our own lifetimes we may witness the death of a major 3000 year old language--Aramaic-- the ancient imperial language of the Middle East, the language of the Jewish Talmud and the spoken language used by generations of Chaldeans and Assyrians in their villages--until ISIS appeared. The Jews of Kurdistan have spoken Aramaic since the Assyrian Exile in 722, BCE, but they left Iraq for Israel in the 1950s, where they now raise Hebrew-speaking children. Even today, Chaldean and Assyrian Christians pray in Aramaic at branches of the Church of East, a church born in Turkey, Persia and Iraq. Now those in the Diaspora speak other languages. While Church missionaries once spread their religion and language all across China and down to the southern tip of India; today their territory has contracted down to a small fraction of the Middle East, where they are under existential threat.

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