Word: syriac
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...control many of the banks and newspapers in Lebanon. Under Meouchi, they have built many new churches and opened new seminaries, now have twelve bishops and 1,600 priests. Although the Maronites have adopted some Western Catholic religious customs, such as the rosary, they recite their liturgy in Syriac and Arabic; priests, but not bishops, are allowed to be married...
...Essenes-a community of Jewish ascetics who were wiped out by Roman legions about 30 years after Christ's death. The new scroll, partly damaged by water, contains 39 hymns found in the Biblical Psalter and three noncanonical psalms that scholars had previously seen in Greek, Syriac or Aramaic, but not in Hebrew. Two others are entirely new; the one that Sanders has translated is "an apostrophe to Zion." Sample lines, from his English version: Hope for thee does not perish, O Zion, nor is hope for thee forgotten...
Pfeiffer, Harry A. Wolfson, Littaner Professor of Semitic Languages, and Professor William Thomson, Jewett Professor of Arabic teach Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Assyrian, and Syriac...
...Baradai, a 6th century Syrian bishop, they now number 800,000. Another group, the St. Thomas Christians (membership: 200,000), broke away in turn from the Jacobites, under Protestant influence, in 1837. About 1,000,000 "Romo-Syrians" have remained faithful to the Roman Catholic Church, although they use Syriac and their native language in their liturgy...
...Monday and Tuesday, Greek Grammar on Wednesday, Hebrew Grammar on Thursday, Rhetoric on Friday and Divinity Catechetical, History and Nature of Plants on Saturday. In his second year he studied Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Ethics and Politics, Greek Grammar and Aramaic and in his third year, Rhetoric, Divinity Catechetical, Syriac, Arithmetic and Geometry, Astronomy and Greek composition. No deviation was allowed from this course of study...