Rev. William Fulco

Rev. William Fulco (1935- ) is a National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He was paid to reconstruct the Aramaic of Jesus for The Passion of the Christ, making him one of the few professional conlangers. His reconstructed Aramaic used in the film incorporated elements of the language of the Book of Daniel, fourth-century Syriac, and Hebrew.