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Title
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Grammar of the Aramaic Syriac Language
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Date
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1888-1963 AD
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Description
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"The Arameans are the sons of Aram, son of Shem. They were a large and famous nation. Their homeland from the oldest days was the vast country that they settled in with their father before everyone else, so it was named after them: the land of Aram or the land of the Arameans."
"It is bounded to the east by the land of Persia, to the west by the Mediterranean Sea, to the north by the land of Armenia and Asia Minor, and to the south by the Arabian Peninsula. So it includes the land of Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, the land of the Levant, and Lebanon."
"When the Greeks took over this country (in 312 BC) and saw the remains of the Assyrian kings in it, they called it Syria, a corruption of Ashur in Aramaic, and they said in it Assur Ya, then they shortened it to Syria."
"However, the Arameans continued to call their country Aram and claim to be related to it until they embraced the Christian religion. Then they began, with excessive jealousy, to abandon their old name, Arameans."
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Language
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Arabic
