. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . rds utteredby him on the cross, from the beginning ofthe 22d Psalm, are in that dialect. TheTalmud, especially the Babylonian, has alarge admixture of Aramaic elements. TheAramaic dialect is, in general, the harshest,poorest, and least elaborated of all the Semit-ic languages, and has now almost entirelydied out, and given place to the Arabic andPersian. Indeed, it is only found livingamong some tribes in remote distr
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . rds utteredby him on the cross, from the beginning ofthe 22d Psalm, are in that dialect. TheTalmud, especially the Babylonian, has alarge admixture of Aramaic elements. TheAramaic dialect is, in general, the harshest,poorest, and least elaborated of all the Semit-ic languages, and has now almost entirelydied out, and given place to the Arabic andPersian. Indeed, it is only found livingamong some tribes in remote districts of themountains of Kurdistan, and in two or threevillages in Syria. Ararat (sacred land). All Eastern coun-tries point to some mountain within theirbounds connected by tradition with the Del-uge ; but the most prevalent tradition fixesupon the mountains which separate thesouthern part of Armenia from name Ararat was unknown to the geog-raphers of Greece and Rome, and is still tothe Armenians of the present day. Euro-peans have given the name exclusively tothe mountain which rises immediately out1 1 Kiujjs xx., 1; Isa. vii., l, 2. ARAUNAH 59 ARCHDEACON. Mount Ararat, from the Plain of Erivan. of the plain of the Araxes. It terminates intwo conical peaks, named the Greater andLess Ararat, about seven miles distant fromeach other; the former about seventeen, andthe latter about thirteen thousand feet abovethe level of the sea. The summit of thehigher is covered with eternal snow andice. It is of volcanic origin, and was longdeemed inaccessible, the Armenians main-taining that no one was permitted to reachthe top, in order that the ark might be pre-served inviolable. It was, however, ascend-ed, in 1829, by Parrot, who, after two previ-ous failures, succeeded in reaching the sum-mit. In its broad signification, the term the mountains of Ararat is co-extensivewith the Armenian plateau from the base ofArarat in the north, to the range of Kurdis-tan in the south. V
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