For his cast, that surprisingly meant asking them – insisting – that they learn and become fluent in the nearly dead language that Christ and his contemporaries spoke: Aramaic. At the time of Christ, ...

When "The Passion of the Christ" became a sensation in 2004 — it remains the top-grossing Christian movie of all time — some viewers struggled with the film's violence and its sole use of Aramaic, ...

As an admitted word geek I often find the origin of English words to be fascinating. Take the word “passion,” for example. It’s a common word that we read, hear and use frequently in various forms.