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Dracula Knew Aramaic
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I'm a big fan of classic style horror, especially vampires and zombies. I found it somewhat amusing that in a movie called "Dracula 2000", with Gerard Butler as the Count, he leaves Aramaic messages (in DSS-style font), hinting at his biblical origins. The movie reveals that Dracula is actually a damned Judas Iscariot. They have a scene where Van Helsing's daughter "psychically" translates one of Dracula's messages, and when asked if she knew Aramaic, she replied, "No, but he does!" Maybe I could have Dracula teach me Aramaic?
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#2
Ha! Some vampire show on TV apparently had a character speak a few words in Aramaic. My wife went berserk. She yelled for me and rewinded the DVR. He was actually pretty good.

You know, with today's technology there really isn't anything preventing an online meeting or class, if enough people were interested I could teach.

+Shamasha
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#3
Sometime if I'm in Chicago on a weekend it would be interesting to come to a service at your church. Me being a Pentecostal might feel a little out of place but I think it would be a beautiful experience. How many Church of East's (sounds a little quirky in phrasing) are there in Chicago?
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ScorpioSniper2 Wrote:Sometime if I'm in Chicago on a weekend it would be interesting to come to a service at your church. Me being a Pentecostal might feel a little out of place but I think it would be a beautiful experience. How many Church of East's (sounds a little quirky in phrasing) are there in Chicago?

Anytime, the CoE has five parishes in the Chicago area, three in the city and two in the outlying suburbs.

The experience depends on which one you visit. Four of the five parishes have Aramaic-only services, my parish (St John) has 50/50 Aramaic/English.

The service itself is liturgical, so if you've been to a Latin, Lutheran or Anglican service, it will be familiar apart from the language.

+Shamasha
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#5
My father goes to the Chicago area quite a bit on business.
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#6
Hi Paul,
I moved to the far north Chicago suburbs, so I would be interested to take online Aramaic classes. I also visited your church a while back, I don't think you had Aramaic classes going on then. It looks like you do now, but unfortunately I moved up too far away from Chicago.

ScorpioSnipper, you mentioned something about tombs and their Greek inscriptions. I used to live in Elmwood Park close to where some of Paul's family is buried. Somebody 2000 thousand years from now, could see some of those tomb stones with their beautiful Aramaic inscriptions and decide that was the language Chicagoans spoke 2000 thousand years earlier :-)?

P.S. I don't like this discussion comes under Dracula heading, but anyway. I am myself a Romanian of origin, and we were taught Dracula was actually a national hero, somebody we look up to. For in example, they say in his day, somebody could leave a bag full of gold next to a well, and nobody would dare touch it... You wouldn't need locks on your door in his days, it seems. But I am digressing.

I am very much interested in online Aramaic classes, Paul.
Greg
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Vlad Dracula was actually a rather remarkable man. A lot of people don't know that "Dracula" is Romanian for "son of the Dragon" (Dracul). Most Christians my area would associate that with Satan, when the Order of the Dragon was basically the Romanian version of the Knight's Templar. I think a lot of people seem to forget that killing your enemies in gruesome ways was quite common in that time period <!-- s:wow: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/wow.gif" alt=":wow:" title="Wow" /><!-- s:wow: -->
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Quote:You know, with today's technology there really isn't anything preventing an online meeting or class, if enough people were interested I could teach.
Shlama Paul,
I think it would be good idea if you open additional thread/topic/some for questions/answers about
Aramaic language grammar, pronunciation, vowels etc.
Ivan.
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