Monday, June 13, 2016

8-1 Aramean





Aramean people   speak Aramaic, the language spoken by Abraham, Moses and Jesus. They are the indigenous people of what was called in ancient times 


nomadic Semitic tribes whose native land was the Arabian Peninsula. First mention of theAramaeans dates from the middle of the third millennium B.C. In the 14th century B.C., theAramaeans penetrated into the Syrian Desert as well as the central Euphrates region; by theturn of the 11th century B.C., they had overrun almost all of Southwest Asia. In a number ofplaces (for example, to the East of the Jordan River), the Aramaeans became a settled people.By 1 A.D., Aramaic, which belongs to the Semitic group, had become the major spokenlanguage of Southwest Asia. The descendants of the Aramaeans are the present-dayAssyrians (Aisors).


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