In the 500s B.C., this replaced Hebrew as the Jews' language; part of the Book of Daniel is written in it
It was in Aramaic that Josephus had written his book on the "Jewish War," as 
he... [DOC] [TLE] Aramaic language - Wikipedia [PAR] Aramaic (Army, Syriac:   ) is a family of languages or dialects belonging 
to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic language family.