The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic
The Lord’s Prayer is a 2000 year old song —
it's almost exactly 2000 years old, since Jesus’ mission began in 26 A.D. and it is now two thousand twenty-four A.D.
The Lord’s Prayer was the prayer Jesus taught his family and students after they asked him how to pray.
Everybody in the Middle East at that time spoke the language of Aramaic. It was their everyday language. All the lessons Jesus taught, all the stories he ever told -- everything -- was spoken in the Aramaic language. Aramaic is a sister-language to Hebrew, but they only spoke Hebrew when reading their scriptures.
The ancient, original Christians, whose descendants still to this day live in Syria, Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq have passed down a special song they claim Jesus actually sang when he taught the Lord’s Prayer. Songs were used as a memorization tool back then.
Rhea Romanoff found one of those ancient melodies, currently still being used by Aramaic-speaking Christians who have survived 2000 years of persecution in Syria and Iraq. Rhea adapted the Syrian melody to get as close as possible to how it might have sounded when Jesus and his students sang it.
Rhea worked carefully to learn the words in the Galilean Aramaic dialect of Jesus’ time.
