Word: syriac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelfth-Century Arab philosopher, whose own attempts to propagate classics, chiefly Aristotle, came to the West in a Latin translation of a Hebrew rendition of his Arabic commentary upon an Arabic translation of a Syriac translation of the Greek original...
...Catholic Church already allows its liturgy to be said in nine languages other than Latin. Among them: Slavonic, Rumanian, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian and Gheez (classic Ethiopic...
...There are about 400,000 Maronite Christians (about 50,000 in the U.S.). They have a Patriarch who lives in a monastery on Mount Lebanon. Their services are mostly in Syriac, the language in which the Chaldean astrologers spoke to Nebuchadnezzar. Maronites whose priests are trained in Rome but permitted to marry, are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and practice an ancient Catholic rite...