Aramaic

Aramaic spread widely across the ancient Near EastAncient Near EastA historical and geographical term covering Mesopotamia, the Levant and neighbouring ancient societies.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, especially during the first millennium BCE. It includes different historical varieties, one of which developed into literary SyriacSyriacA literary form of Aramaic, with an extensive Christian heritage and earlier non-Christian attestations.Glossary · Click to read the explanation. Related words for a deity occur across these varieties; Aramaic and Syriac should not be treated as identical names for every period and community. ^{[1] [2]}