How many people in the continental US can read Aramaic aloud fluently?

[Tim]

Charles, thanks for the book recommendation. I had no idea the ancient Hebrew language almost passed away.

Paul, Wow! I've located a church in San Diego that I will visit soon. I have very high expectations for my visit and even expect them to be exceeded. Am I to understand that a living Aramaic speaker could converse with Jesus and they would be mutually intelligible?

Steve, good to make your acquaintance. I have poured over your site and only wish I had the time to pursue a program ending in my fluency in biblical Aramaic.

Also, when I came to the site I quickly discovered that the primacy of the Greek texts are in question. What an adventure it must be investigating this delightful mystery.

My end goal in all this is to produce a video, for myself, with my voice reciting a grace in Aramaic, and the video showing the Aramaic text accompanied by a pseudo-phonetic English text. I will probably post a link to it in this form if I actually create this video, and I am warning you now not to watch it because I'm sure it would be painful on your eyes and even worse on your ears.

Thank you all for giving me quite a bit to 'pay forward.'